Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

ixagon

Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

in Library and Tool Development • 1 year ago

Hi,

We've been working on this library for quiet some time now and think it's time for us to contribute to the community by making it public.

http://www.ixagon.se/surfacemapper/

SurfaceMapper is a library the enables you to project textures on multiple surfaces, like the keystone library.

Some features are:

Correct perspective transformation with the use of the Java Advanced Imaging API (JAI).
Add bezier surfaces and map curved objects.
You can name each surface a specific String ID.
Easy to change sub division on specific surfaces.
Automatically calculates the texture mapping in each surface.
Easy to identify each surface to assign content.
Save and load all settings.
Set specific colors of each surface.
Can set snap and selection distance using the scroll wheel.
Set background of the sketch to map from a photo.

A lot of inspiration and some code are from mappingtools, keystone and Ben Perdy from this post.

Hope you enjoy it and please post feedback!

/edit

This version is currently not working under Processing 2.0

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veeableful

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Nice! Is there a way to use the mouse to adjust the vertices?

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Can you be more precise?

You can move each corner of the quad surface by clicking and dragging. Same goes for bezier surfaces, where you also can move the control points by clicking and dragging.

veeableful

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

When I tried the "basic" example, I can't use my mouse to click and drag the corners. Do I have to manually implement it or it's already in the example?

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Bitbucket seemed to have cached an old file that didn't work. Please try and download the file again from https://bitbucket.org/ixagon/surfacemapper/downloads and get back if it still doesn't work.

veeableful

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

It still doesn't work. I also found a bug on the example. When I use arrow keys to move one of the vertices to the center of the quad, the quad will get messy/disappear.

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Okay, I uploaded a new file called SurfaceMapper0.91.zip, try that one.

Are you on Windows or Mac?

We know it looks messy when you try to invert the surface, it's because of the calculations used in the Java Advanced Imaging API, so it's nothing we can do anything about I'm afraid.

veeableful

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

I'm on Windows and it still doesn't work. Is it because I'm using Windows?

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Okay, figured out what it was. It was because of you being on Windows, but a very strange thing made it not work.
I had this snippet of code at the top of my mouseEvent, which works on Mac.

if (e.getButton() != MouseEvent.BUTTON1)
return;

BUTTON1 is obviously not the same on both OS's.

There's a new version up now that should work.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

veeableful

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Ah great! Thanks for solving the problem

datamosh

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

EDIT below...

Hi, I'm on windows vista and it seems like the funcion

removeSelectedSurface() doesn't exist...

if (key == ' ') {
for (SuperSurface ss : sm.getSelectedSurfaces()) {
ss.removeSelectedSurfaces();
}
}

EDIT: sorry, I didn't notice....

the right way is:

if (key == ' ') {
sm.removeSelectedSurfaces();
}

BTW, really nice library! ;)

datamosh

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

does the shake function works on bezier surface? I can't get them shaking.

also, it seems that you updated this function but not the examples:

if(key == 'e'){
sm.setShakeAll(200, 100, 450);
}

I had to add 200 to reach the three int needed...

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Ah yeah, forgot to update the examples. We added a third parameter to Shake for settings how long it should shake.

Will update the examples tomorrow!

knutl

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

I installed the lib, tried to run the basic example and get the following error:

GL_ARB_geometry_shader4 extension not available

NoSuchMethod error: You may be using a library thats incompatible with this version of processing

I use Processing 1.5.1 and I am on Windows Vista.

Any idea ?

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Do you have GLGraphics 1.0 installed?

knutl

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

No, its 0.9.4. Ok, I will update. Thnx for your quick reply !

knutl

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Ok, works. Thnx again.

dackdel

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

hey,

i was wondering if there is a way to map while in the video mode (after pressing 'c' and toggling calibration, when you can see the videos) can you map the videos from this mode? also what is the upper limit of videos and video types? great job btw. kudos.

best

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

Hi,

currently there are no methods to do this, it's nothing that we had any use of.

Source code is up, it's a simple fix if you have the knowledge.

About the limitation, SurfaceMapper in it self has no limitations on how many surfaces you can add.

From our experience, if you're running lots of videos at the same time, use an SSD drive.

cleliodpa..

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

It's possible to use a interactive draw to fill a surface?

I'm using static images, movies, texture with filters but I couldn't make any interactive draw using, always when I tried the surface appears white.

knutl

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

1 year ago

I used a drawing in PGraphics like

pg=createGraphics(height, height, P2D)

with some drawing

pg.beginDraw()

...drawing

pg.endDraw()

and the put the resulting image with

tex.putImage(pg);

on the texture.

isharko

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

10 months ago

Hey,

Any plans on releasing a Processing 2.0 compatible version?

Great job so far!

ixagon

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

10 months ago

Hi!

Thanks, we're working on a major update on SurfaceMapper as a hole. We'll be releasing a 1.5 and 2.0 update soon and post it here.

knutl

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

7 months ago

hey ixagon

any news on surfacemapper on 2.0 ?

knutl

Re: Announcing SurfaceMapper - a projection mapping library

3 months ago

I am starting just now a bigger projekt for the next 3-4 month and there alots of aspects that force me into 2.0. But I would also like ver y much to use surface mapper. Could you give me any indication, if you are still planning to release surface mapper on 2.0 ?

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