In order to overcome this effect, an option is given to automatically switch the favoured side during rescaling, at the cost of a slightly worse performance.

The function lqr_carver_set_side_switch_frequency sets the side switch frequency to switch_frequency for the LqrCarver object pointed to by carver. This will have the effect that, for each rescale operation, the favoured side will be switched switch_frequency times (or as much times as the number of pixels to rescale).

The default value for newly created LqrCarver objects is 0.

As for the final result, a very small value (e.g. 1 to 4) will normally suffice to balance the left and right side of the image (or the top and the boddom sides for vertical rescalings), without noticeable computational costs. However, in order to obtain a smoother behaviour for the visibiliy map, i.e. for the intermediate steps, higher values may be required.