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Seamlessly inserting objects into photographs.

Roll a d20 to disbelieve?

edited 25th Oct '11 4:36:01 PM by Yej

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A 15 for me. Hm... I'll subtly believe it, but I'll disbelieve it.

I notice that the article doesn't mention whether it works in reverse. Can it improve upon the effect shown in the page picture for Unperson?

edited 25th Oct '11 6:06:56 PM by feotakahari

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I doubt it. It doesn't know what's behind an object in the original picture, after all.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

This is imperfect*

, but real. How do I know? There's currently a Google Summer Of Code project underway to implement seamless cloning into GIMP -1- -2-.

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@feo: that's a completely different class of effect, if this algorithym is what I think it is... cloning with intelligent auto-matteing and automatic white balance adaptation. Depending on what you select to clone from, it might still be effective, though.

edited 25th Oct '11 11:10:01 PM by SavageOrange

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Here's the paper of the algorithm, and here's a demo.

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Reminds me of this.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

And look, somebody there is already moaning the death of photography.

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.

The death of photography? Hardly. if anything this adds an amazing tool to the photographer's toolbox.

Oh come on, an advancement without the butchering of an older art form? That's not near dramatic enough.

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.

I'm saying this as someone who studies in Graphic design and plans on taking some photography courses. something like this will change a lot about what we can do with art or commercial design and photography.

Some of those edits looked very fake to me. The lighting on the dragon statues seemed off.

It is a fantastic improvement but not quite photo realistic.

edited 26th Oct '11 12:56:26 PM by Pentadragon

Ah, my mistake. The GIMP seamless-clone is a different kind of algorithym, involving inserting an automatically matted and color adjusted 2d image/sprite into another; whereas this is about building a 3d model of the scene and using it to realistically insert 3d objects.

It certainly inspires me as an animator.. An ability to realistically light a character as they move through a scene would be very helpful for thumbnailing. However I'll note that they haven't shown any 'drawn' background examples, so I'll reserve judgement on whether it would actually work well for that.

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