How To Resize an Image Correctly in JavaScript

Written by trekhleb | Published 2021/05/02
Tech Story Tags: javascript | web | programming | image-processing | tutorial | js | algorithms | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR The Seam Carving algorithm is to find the seam (continuous sequence of pixels) with the lowest contribution to the image content and then carve (remove) it. This process repeats over and over again until we get the required image width or height. To make the seam search faster the dynamic programming approach might be applied (we'll be using TypeScript for it) The algorithm is not a silver bullet, and it may fail to resize images where most of the pixels are edges (look important to the algorithm)via the TL;DR App
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Written by trekhleb | Software Engineer @ UBER. Author of the 100k ⭐️ javascript-algorithms repository on GitHub.
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/05/02
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