Apply Liquid Resizing (vuo.image.resize.liquid)

Changes the dimensions of an image, while attempting to preserve interesting content in the image.

• Width — The width of the output image, in pixels.
• Height — The height of the output image, in pixels.
• Rigidity — How strongly to preserve vertical and horizontal lines all the way through the image. At 0, this node may remove or insert craggy, winding paths through the image. At 1, this node may only remove or insert vertical and horizontal lines.
• Preserve Mask, Discard Mask — Optional images specifying which parts of the source image to try to preserve or discard. For Preserve Mask, areas that are bright and opaque are preserved. For Discard Mask, areas that are bright and opaque are discarded. In both masks, areas that are dark or transparent are unaffected. These masks should be the same size as the source image.

This is an expensive, CPU-based operation, so it will only work in realtime for small images (a few hundred pixels wide and high). Once a given image has been processed, it can be efficiently resized, but changing the Image, Rigidity, or Preserve or Discard Mask requires re-processing the image, which will slow things down. Higher Rigidity values are faster.

Keywords: Ariel Shamir, Shai Avidan, aspect, blow up, content aware, contextually, disappear, enlarge, fill, fluid, hide, liquid, magnify, part, premium, preserve, pro, region, remove, resize, retouch, scale, seam carving, section, shrink, size, stretch, tile

Example compositions:

• Move Seagulls Closer Together: Resizes an image of seagulls, causing them to move closer together (instead of being squashed).
• Remove Parts of Photo: Shows how to seamlessly remove parts of a photograph.

This is a pro node. If you share this composition with other Vuo users, they'll need to have access to pro nodes in order to run it.