There is no source code for Intelligent Scissors

In the year 2000, I implemented the intelligent scissors algorithm in Java for a small class project. A lot of people ask me for the source code, but it is not available anymore. You wouldn't want it, anyway: it was hastily and badly written, it isn't intelligible enough to extend in any direction, it runs very slowly, (and I didn't even get an ‘A’ in the class). You'd be much better off writing it yourself, which is not too difficult.

Links:

• The paper that describes the algorithm is Intelligent Scissors for Image Composition by Mortensen and Barrett (PDF):

  @conference{mortensen.cg95
    ,title="Intelligent scissors for image composition"
    ,author="E. N. Mortensen and W. A. Barrett"
    ,booktitle="Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques"
    ,pages={191--198}
    ,year={1995}
    ,organization={ACM}
  }
  

• Can't get the paper? Try a Google Scholar search.
• There is apparently a demonstration of my code at: http://www.luberth.com/java/scissors.
• The GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) has a much better implementation.

Hope this helps,
-Keith