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Comment by SahAssar

5 days ago

The whole point of a masonry layout is if you have different aspect ratios. Otherwise a masonry layout is just a normal grid.

Masonry layout fixes one of the dimensions. That means either portrait or landscape images will look visibly smaller than those of the inverse aspect ratio, because their longer side must be the same length as the latter’s shorter side.

Masonry works well if you have different aspect ratios of the same orientation.

  • Just curious, what algorithm is good for laying out images of arbitrary orientations, sizes, and aspect ratios? That seems like a pretty difficult problem. Some sort of variation of knapsack problem maybe?