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August 2008
Digital Face Beautification
by oqdbpo
& 3 others
This sketch presents a novel method for digital face beautification: given a frontal photograph of a face (a portrait), our method automatically increases the predicted attractiveness rating of the face. The main challenge is to achieve this goal while introducing only minute, subtle modifications to the original image, such that the resulting “beautified” face maintains a strong, unmistakable similarity to the original, as demonstrated by the pair of faces shown in Figure 1. The effectiveness of the proposed method was experimentally
validated by a group of test subjects who consistently rated the modified faces as more attractive than the original ones. Professional photographers have been retouching and deblemishing their subjects ever since the invention of photography. It may be safely assumed that any model that we encounter on a magazine cover today has been digitally manipulated by a skilled, talented retouching artist. Since the human face is arguably the most frequently photographed object on earth, a tool such as ours would be
a useful and welcome addition to the ever-growing arsenal of image enhancement and retouching tools available in today’s digital image editing packages. The potential of such a tool for motion picture special effects and advertising is also quite obvious.
June 2008
Beautiful And Original Product Designs | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
by oqdbpo
& 1 other
Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren’t likely to spend money on something they won’t be able to use. On the other hand, most people are likely to buy something useful despite the design it has.
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May 2008
Visual Brainstorming - Mycoted
by oqdbpo
When traditional thinking has become stale or dried up, visual brainstorming using graphic ideation may be a useful alternative
April 2008
Functional Design for a Dysfunctional World - That’s Design!
by oqdbpo
Introduction
We are facing a planet that is slowly disintegrating by pollution and global warming. We live in a society that is sadly corrupted by violence and inequality. And in which poverty goes hand in hand with over consumption. Our world certainly is a dysfunctional world. This exhibition focuses on a group of young designers who operate both as producers and social engineers. In their desire for an instantly engaged attitude, they reinterpret their own environment to offer useful and ingenious suggestions for design that can be at once critical, functional and witty. Using prosaic materials, found or recycled objects, and by reassembling and reconstructing old and new,
they address environmental problems, gender issues, and politics of space, or simply press for a more human face of design. Not without humour they trigger awareness of our patterns of behaviour. And by exploring the symbolic values of the objects that surround us, they remind us that while we all share the dream of living in a better world we are equally responsible for creating or at least sustaining it. The participants in the exhibition are students or recent graduates of Konstfack from different departments, including Interior Design and architecture, Industrial Design, Glass and Ceramics and Textiles.
Renée Padt, Curator
March 2008
"View Selection Source" for the Opera browser
by oqdbpo
View Selection Source — simple JavaScript bookmarklet (favelet) or an User JavaScript which allows you to see HTML source of any part of page, it's very useful for web developers. You probably know it from Firefox.
February 2008
Linkwad :: Firefox Add-ons
by springnet
Linkwad lets you save and restore tabbed browsing sessions called wads. Wads can be shared and accessed from any computer. You can also share your "wads".
January 2008
11个阻挡垃圾信息的实用站点
by blogsir
11 Truly Useful Websites to Stop Spammers From Bothering You
1. Spaml
2. Audit My PC
3. Anti-spam Techniques
4. Arachnoid
5. SpamCop.net
6. ASSP
7. MyTrashMail.com
8. BlackMail
9. MailWasher
10. Grisoft Free AVG Anti-Spam Software
11. Virtu-Software “Spam”
December 2007
MakeUseOf.com | Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips
by springnet
& 4 others
The thing I like best about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you.
September 2007
