Using paths

[bootchk]

Using paths

[bootchk]

Without deep study...

It seems very doable. It would be a plugin called "Heal path". It
would turn a path into a selection, then invoke the plugin "Heal
selection" on it.

Whether the results are good depends on what is in the background of the
wire. I suspect the Adobe content aware fill is better than the
resynthesizer.

It might also be that Adobe is healing incrementally:
heal a short section from it's immediate context,
then heal the next section, etc.
That might work better than healing the entire wire at once.

Again, you might be able to do that in a plugin.

However, you might be able to add an option to the engine to:
choose probes in the corpus based on nearness to the actual target
pixel,
instead of as it currently does,
which is choose probes in the corpus based on nearness to the CENTER of
the target. It would slow the algorithm down. Probably better to do it
in a plugin.

I am also interested in knowing whether GIMPscripter could be used to
write this plugin. If it really is just automating some steps, you
ought to be able to use GIMPscripter to write the plugin (if
GIMPscripter were complete.)

For another idea for a wild effect:
do edge detection,
turn edges into paths,
paths into selections,
and heal them?

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 13:34 -0700, prokoudine wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_dC-FkW4mw shows how to use paths (Bezier curves) for resynthesizing so that you could remove e.g. curved wires from landscape pictures. Do you think you could implement something like that?

[bootchk]

RobA on Gimp Registry has provided a plugin.