Free software1 sections · 2 min readBy Dezső Mező.mdFree softwareCarven
Carven is a content-aware image resizer that implements seam carving from scratch. It builds a gradient-energy map, runs a minimum-seam dynamic program to find the least-important path of pixels, and removes it - all as pure number-grid math kept separate from rendering and tested directly. It shows content-aware and naive scaling side by side, and it is a from-scratch, dependency-light build you can download and run locally.
01About the app
Image processing + dynamic programming
What to take away
- From-scratch seam carving: a gradient-energy map + a min-seam dynamic program + pixel removal, all pure number-grid math (7 tests). Side-by-side content-aware vs naive scale.
- Download: Carven (ZIP)
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