CS 4670 – Project 1

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Originally, I had come up with many other ideas involving more of my suitemates and a picture I had taken in New York City. However, only one was left awake by the time I wanted to start photographing, so adjustments had to be made. Instead, I used an old idea of having one person interact with himself in the same room. To start, of course, took a picture of the room.

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Afterwards, I took several photos of my test subject.

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For each photo, I used my intelligent scissors to generate a binary mask. This would be used later for cropping out my roommate out of each photo.

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Using GIMP, I opened up each original photo and cropped out my roommate using a method described in PIAZZA. I used the quickmask function and copied the mask over it. I then exited quickmask mode and copy and pasted the result into the room. Then, the necessary moving and rotations needed were done. The result was as follows:

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