PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm 193
PhotoSketch, a new image manipulation program that combines stick-figure sketches, internet image search and pattern matching, seems to be spreading like wildfire. Created by five Chinese students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, the tool takes a basic sketch and simple labels and turns it into a polished image. "Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images," say the PhotoSketch team in an abstract outlining the tool. "We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition. Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful."
Sketched (Score:4, Funny)
What everyone want's to know... (Score:4, Funny)
If you sketch a big circle and two hands, will it come up with goatse?
This sums it up quite nicely (Score:5, Funny)
An event that will be remembered forever in the History of Humanity as the day in which a million dorks were finally able to put themselves in X-rated positions with Megan Fox.
OH GREAT (Score:5, Funny)
Photoshopped Politics (Score:4, Funny)
This will make things way easier for Iran and North Korea.
When slashdotters get their hands on this program (Score:3, Funny)
Tubgirl and goatse.cs are gonna crash.
Re:What everyone want's to know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool idea, but lacks specificity (Score:4, Funny)
I hope they can work out the kinks.
Oh, don't be so boring . . . let them leave the kink in!
Let's download binaries from China! (Score:5, Funny)
Anybody else see what's wrong with this picture?
Re:The end of creativity (Score:4, Funny)
A Scanner Darkly
Re:Let's download binaries from China! (Score:5, Funny)
Seem to run about right here at Fermilabs.
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The end of creativity (Score:3, Funny)
That might be fine if youre doing a remake of a ..ah damn what the name of that film again...my memory is shit.
Star Wars: A New Hope [slashdot.org]?
Re:xkcd (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cool idea, but lacks specificity (Score:4, Funny)
Wouldn't load in WinXP ... (Score:1, Funny)
Downloaded the binaries, extracted the executables to my WinXP VM instance, and got the error, "The system cannot execute the specified program". Got .NET installed, so it must be looking for some C++ dependencies. Not pretty...
Re:Copyright implications, mashup (Score:3, Funny)
Aren't mashups already in a gray area?
The problem is that you're letting your potatoes get exposed to air for too long before mashing them. Submerge them in iced water prior to mashing, and add some sour cream to the mash, then your mashup will have a creamy texture and clean white color.
Re:This sums it up quite nicely (Score:5, Funny)
I'm amazed at how well this seems to automatically extract subjects from their background, something that usually requires a lot of painstaking manual work... honestly that's the real challenge of "photoshopping", becoming a ninja with the selection tools.
The reason the software is a binary distribution is because it is actually sending the images to hundreds of thousands of chinese prisoners who are being made to use pirated copies of photoshop to select out the figures from the backgrounds and then send the results back.
Re:OH GREAT (Score:3, Funny)