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very clever. Now give me an example of this being useful?

• Flemlord 18y ago
  I logged in to post the same comment. I'm missing the practical application of this.
• fhars 18y ago
  You're right. A true hacker never writes user documentation for his software, so this is definitely not hacker news. (Ignore this comment if you only ever use MDI applications). Edit: My bad, MDI interface is as stupid as LCD display.
• bmelton 18y ago
  In this particular form, it's probably not very useful at all -- but identifying edges, or extracting 'foreground' images from 'background' images automatically with clean edges is something that would be ridiculously useful for videography, photo editing, or just graphic design in general. Furthermore, if you advance the technology to being able to scan a photo of, say, an airport lobby, break each component into layers, and then perform shape identification on each of the identified pieces, you've got left-package detection or weapon identification technologies available to you (potentially.)
• wmeredith 18y ago
  User manual authoring.