Small disclaimer for admission officers and Dauren reading this (hi 👋): This is not a "I started a nonprofit three days before application deadlines" situation. I've been messing around with these ideas for a while and just didn't bother publishing them until recently.

A tiny seam carving implementation that shrinks images by intelligently removing vertical seams instead of just cropping.

inspired by this tsoding video.

learn more: seam carving on wikipedia

./run.sh image.jpg <num_seams>

converts your image to ppm, carves out seams, and saves the result as png.

removed 714 seams (50% of width) from a broadway tower image:

before:

after: