Based on work from a Coursera algorithms class, this code demonstrates how to resize images vertically or horizontally while preserving the most significant content in the image and maintaining the aspect ratio of the image.

Original image (1024x678):

100 pixels removed from height (1024x578):

100 pixels removed from width (924x678):

Original image (1024x678):

100 pixels removed from height (1024x578):

100 pixels removed from width (924x678):

Copyright 2013 Jim Guistwite

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