Resize, Refit, Reshape, Rethink

For anyone still doubting the power of processors and pixels to affect our collective view of the world here is yet more evididence. As if the old Dove video isn't enough here's a slightly more tech approach to the ongoing issue of resizing images to fit not only the various monitor formats but the plehtora of media devices pushing images in general.

This is a cool outside the box approach to what we all bump into at times. Rather than working purely in a linear approach the engineers (props folks) have managed to work in non uniform columns. That is they have worked out an method for determining the importance of pixels to the overall image and then removing those deemed the least vital in the spectrum of the picture.

Great to see what's ahead and that as much as manipulation, and at times deceipt, play a role in visual media today that tools are being developed that push the envelope of what we as photographers would all hope for. I can see this technology and the face recognition used within being extremely useful. Let me know when you see this out in use.