owlspook
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I don't know much about coding for GIMP, but, I think that you could use GIMP's source code and extract the rescale tool, and make it into a Module, I've seen Modules that added buttons to GIMP, color selecting, paint tools, and all sorts of other cool things like that.

Maybe Liquid Rescale could be made into a Module and have the functionality as if being included in GIMP?

About next version (0.7.0), it's not coming out very soon probably. The development version currently has a few imporevements and can be downloaded from the git repository. The instructions are here (there's also an RSS feed to know when new commits are up). If you want to volounteer for beta-testing you can send me an email and be notified when a new version is about to come out, this would be very apprecieted (and of course the same invitation is open for anyone who may want to volounteer for this).

I would like to ask if, and suggest that, the next version of Liquid Rescale will have interactive rescaling? I've seen others writing that Liquid Rescale will have an interactive rescale option — I know it already has somewhat interactivity in 0.6.1 — but, I would like something more like the interactivity in Photoshop.

I know this is a hard task, I just want to know whether the next coming version (0.6.2?) is the version that you might implement truly interactive rescaling.

On that note: When is the next version coming out? Or how close is it to being released?

Also, I would like to know if there is anyway I can "beta test" each version before they are released? All I would need is source code that can be compiled :)

Thank you.

It's not something special, what I have done here.
It's only an SFX-File. But I find it a little bit easier for some people.
The Text in the Install-Window is made with OpenOffice.org and the Icon is not totally made by myself(I think you know the Source). Only the "+" is made by me and I delete the Background of Wilber.
And I combined that all with WinRaR (now the english version)

For more Questions, you can Mail me: ed.teneerf|2retsamolah#ed.teneerf|2retsamolah

I'm removing the page on Deviantart and edit the message on Gimptalk to point directly to this wiki.

As a side note i did some experiments to use LqR to animate a photo of a landscape simulating camera movements and results are good as i supposed ( they still need some post editing, basically to resize back, i should find a way to do it in batch…and a bit of cropping to enhance the movement illusion ) at the moment i have only the rough material 4 quite gigantic xcf files (to simulate 4 different kind of camera movement on same image ) as they are no too exciting but once assembled should look fine as example

about posting on the new forum my first idea was send you a private message but i did not find that option, (i found now, thank to your message)

Then still i can't see how upload file here and i lost your private address, anyway i fix the zip and i move the page away from public view , and i will delete at soon you advice me that you downloaded the file, here is the windows zip http://www.deviantart.com/download/103271394/Gimp_Liquid_Rescale_Windows_by_photocomix_resources.zip

About the help i do not change nothing in the help, but since currently the gimp help in windows is broken (only the option for online help works) install the LqR help in gimp will be only delusive..at least in that way that was only a temporary workaround is possible have the help at hand and open with the browser.

• the windows zip file you linked to does only contain the help files, while the FILES_TO_INSTALL folder is empty (i.e. no plugin there)
• please, only use the News forum category when a new version is actually uploaded on this site

It would be much better (and easier) if you or François send me the zip file by mail, or upload it here and notify me (but the mail is a better option to me).
Then, if you want to improve the installation instructions, we can do it on the Installation instructions page on this site. This is open to discussion.
Besides, I see no point in uploading those files (with no version number, BTW) other than here or in a site offering software to download.

I would really like to let the new, fixed version available as soon as possible, hope to hear from you soon.

[note: I didn't check the deb files yet]

but i am not reporting a bug in the wrong board but giving a good new, the problem was solved thank to my Flickr friend Francois Collard , that build new binary for windows .
I did a quick test, all seems working fine and even faster

At soon i get home i will upload ,and then edit this post to add a download link so you may test and, if you like , add to your download section.

EDIT here http://photocomix-resources.deviantart.com/art/Gimp-Liquid-Rescale-Windows-103271394 download button is at the left of the illustration
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PS Francois send me also a deb package but at the moment i have no clear if is only for Ubuntu or for any Debian (i use only Ubuntu so i can't check)
anyway i will add that link too in a few hours from now so you may have a look

EDIT Deb are here, http://photocomix-resources.deviantart.com/art/Gimp-Liquid-Rescale-Ubuntu-103281999

As usual follow a full disclaimer, this debs worked fine on Francois and my computer, and are not yet tested by others

Details: Mac OS 10.4.11; Xcode 2.5; PPC G5

I pretty much followed your directions, however:

I had to change the configure line to:

./configure —prefix=/opt/local PKG_CONFIG_PATH=../liblqr-1-0.1.0

where PKG_CONFIG_PATH points to the directory that liblqr was downloaded to (the directory that contains the file "lqr-1.pc")

Works Great!!! Thanks for making this available.

About real-time scaling and such: the Liquid Rescale implementation of the algorithm does support it (in theory): it builds a visibility map and uses it to decide which pixels to show, and of course also to decide where to insert seams for enlarging.
So the anser is: yes, it avoids enlarging every time in the same place if possible.

The video TDZc3HnKp8o is about another program I don't know anything about, but the explanations you proposed seam quite reasonable.

About working in batch mode : it can, from inside the GIMP. I wish to split the code at some point and make an independent library, but I don't know when.

Video filesize: I think there are far better compression methods, which avoid distorting the image! If you were wandering about aspect ratio instead, it is possible in principle but I wouldn't count much on the quality of the results … unless you want to create some kind of liquid effect in a video (that would be interesting).

I read of a problem that some implementations of this technique have (YouTube video id b39R8eHyvmw), and I'm wondering if Liquid Rescale has sidestepped this problem, or if it should become a feature request.

Here's the text:
(the video's program appears to not…)
"get hung up in any spots, and continuously remove from the same seams.
I've seen a few people try to write their own image carving before… and they usually make the mistake of 'real time' carving, which generally gets hung up on the same seams over and over.
Do you use the seam ordering method described in the original idea? (Caching seam pixels in order of removal, before removing any seams.)"

My eyeball of one video that may not be of the same program, (I'm not sure, check yt id TDZc3HnKp8o says "yes, this is a problem" but I'm a newb to the whole subject.

It may also only appear to be a problem in the video due to image features (painted line) that make it easy to detect distortions, and the use of the "delete" option may bias/require the lines removed to be near that object for awhile.

I only found a few videos of the Gimp plugin, and none of them in real time like this vid of the original method: vIFCV2spKtg.

And lastly, video questions. It doesn't seem possible yet to use a GIMP plugin with VirtualDub, and it sounds so hard I won't ask. Can this plugin work in batch mode? And, most-highly-speculative-question is, is this technique (find lines of least energy) feasible in reducing video filesize?