Dr. Ariel Shamir demonstrates at SIGGRAPH an application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently. When you resize the image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

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See what it made of the Plime Logo! picked by TheStep 3 years ago

HAL9000, an Italian group that specializes in art restoration, preservation and high-resolution art photography, has posted an 8.6 gigapixel stitched image of an Italian fresco. The group claims it's the highest resolution digital photograph in the world. Link goes to page that talks about the image and the method used to create it. Has a link for the actual image for those with plenty of bandwid... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A builder was stunned when he discovered a ghostly image of Michael Jackson on his car bonnet. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colours, will enjoy the latest image released by ESO. Obtained in part with the Very Large Telescope, the image is the deepest ground-based U-band image of the Universe ever obtained. It contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world’s first high-definition image taking of an Earth-rise* by the lunar explorer “KAGUYA” (SELENE,) which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the big-bang in a piece of toast. atheist donald chapman, 36, told local newspaper, "the huddlesfield express" that he was sitting down to eat breakfast when an unusual toast pattern caught his eye. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

On Friday, the image appeared at 6:16 p.m. on a door of the three-car garage, and the crowd of nearly 400 people gathered in a tight semicircle to see for themselves. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

You can never completely prevent all forms of image stealing. There are some useful methods that will help you to prevent hotlinking. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

What if you could draw some stick figures on screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage? You can. Maybe.. PhotoSketch claims to scour the internet to find images to smoothly integrate into a seemless montage based on your scribbles. This is reviewed at ZDNet giving it credibility but many viewers claim fraud. What do you think? picked by equinox 2 months ago

A spectacular new image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be. By studying the details of this image made from a long observation by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers can better understand how some stars die and disperse elements like oxygen into the next generation of stars and planets. Larger image. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Using a feature of CSS3, currently supported by Firefox but not IE7 or even Opera - yet, one can hide an image in plain site. When a block of text is highlighted the image will appear otherwise all you see is text. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Kate McCann wiped away a tear as she was shown the computer-aided image of her daughter Madeleine as she might look now. Her picture, produced using computer-assisted technology, shows a smiling Madeleine wearing a pink band in her shoulder-length hair and a blue dress with frilly white collar. picked by sharon22 7 months ago

The European Space Agency (Esa) has released a stunning image of the spiral galaxy M51, otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

An unexplained image in a hospital prayer garden window moved some people to tears and drew groups of people to a hallway before vanishing, according to witnesses. A crowd inside the Florida Hospital Medical Complex in Orlando snapped photos of the image apparently showing the profile of Jesus Christ crying. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Deadly wildfires in southern Greece wafted thick clouds of smoke over the Ionian Sea and southward to the Mediterranean in late August 2007. This image of Greece was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on August 26, and places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are outlined in red. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime template for star formation studies. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

search for an image and have it come out as coloured text in the shape of the image

UPDATE: also checkout text-image picked by camro77 3 years ago

Dave Kinnaman, author of unChristian, was recently featured in this article from Time Magazine on "Christianity's Image Problem." picked by ReBoot 2 years ago