When I first stumbled across this video, I shrugged it off as a hoax.  The results are so amazing, and so fast, that it seems beyond the realm of feasibility.  However, I just found that it originated from the Adobe Blog by John Nack, giving it a whole new level of legitimate background.

One of the biggest requests we get of Photoshop is to make adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless. From retouching to completely reimagining an image, heres an early glimpse of what could happen in the future when you press the delete key. How might you use this new capability in your workflow?

You have to see it to believe it folks, just watch the video below.  I’ve seen similar effects from PDE & Level Set algorithms at old IEEEViz conferences, but those required significant computing power (supercomputer-level) and lots of time, nothing this fast.  Perhaps it’s making use of GPGPU acceleration?  Perhaps they’ve found some shortcut?  Perhaps it has nothing to do with that technology?  We’ll find out soon enough.

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