The Geometry of the Essential: A Look at the Seam Carving Algorithm

Consider the digital photograph. To the human eye, it is a continuous, evocative memory. May it be a face, a landscape, a fleeting moment of light and shadow. But beneath the veneer of human perception, it is something entirely different. It is a rigid matrix. A vast, unyielding grid of pixels, each holding a specific mathematical value of light and color. It is a Cartesian plane. It is a vast,…