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I agree, that looks very nice. I might be wrong here but I think the background is just the picture, although scaled and has got many filters on it.
Actually, you're right! It's the same picture, scaled down to around 500x500 and with a heavy gaussian blur applied to it. The trick is to have a subtle grain effect over it to eliminate gradient artifacts.
The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
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Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#92Side-topic. Shooting Holi [1] without putting your camera in an airtight sealed enclosure is a good way to ruin your equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/05/how-to-ruin-your-gea...
If the dust is that invasive into nominally sealed lenses, I really wouldn't want to be breathing the stuff.
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#93I've studied this a great deal, and developed a custom masonry type layout to mitigate the row/column bias. I believe it is a much more balanced layout than the article shows. Using it in Imagist, a paid app. Open to a few beta testers for iOS 7 as well, if you want to judge for yourself.
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#94Side-topic. Shooting Holi [1] without putting your camera in an airtight sealed enclosure is a good way to ruin your equipment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/05/how-to-ruin-your-gea...
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#95It like how it looks, but much like Flickr I dislike how it's biased towards landscape pictures. Some of my best photos are portrait, but they get overshadowed by the landscape ones. I imagine the algorithm to cater to both is much harder, because you wouldn't be able to treat each row in isolation, can it actually be solved to a good standard?
If you prefer portaits: use columns instead of rows and scroll horizontally instead of vertically. If you want to avoid the bias you have to try something else: e.g. reorder the images, overlap them, convert to square format…
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#96btw this breaks zoom.
I've done stuff like this in the past, if you want something that works: https://github.com/ionelmc/jquery-gp-gallery
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#97FF 22 on Windows 8
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#98I've studied this a great deal, and developed a custom masonry type layout to mitigate the row/column bias. I believe it is a much more balanced layout than the article shows. Using it in Imagist, a paid app. Open to a few beta testers for iOS 7 as well, if you want to judge for yourself.
for iOS only or also web?
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#99I've studied this a great deal, and developed a custom masonry type layout to mitigate the row/column bias. I believe it is a much more balanced layout than the article shows. Using it in Imagist, a paid app. Open to a few beta testers for iOS 7 as well, if you want to judge for yourself.
Yes, please?
Re: The algorithm for a perfectly balanced photo gallery
#100Since I'm a CS theory person, I can offer some theoretical improvements on the running time and make the problem even more general... Instead of minimize the linear difference of partition, we might want to minimize the standard deviation, or basically any convex function, and still do it in the same time bound. One can reduce this problem to find a k-edge path of minimum weight on a complete DAG. The naive algorithm…