Grid / Mesh warping

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#1

Hi,

I want to apply a texture to a 2D mesh, in order to do some projection mapping on an irregular surface. Something similar to what can be done in Mad Mapper

I made a while ago a mapping addon to do some simple mapping. For example, to correctly warp quad using homography.
https://github.com/morethanlogic/ofxMtlMapping2D

But so far I’m unable to find the way to correctly map a 2D grid / mesh. If I approach this by using homography on each ‘cell’ of the grid I get the following result:

You can see that the chessboard texture does not correctly continue between the cell #2 and #4.

I searched the forum and found an old post describing the same issue ( http://forum.openframeworks.cc/t/quad-warping–homography-without-opencv/3121/7 ) but there is no reply to it.

Is homography on every quad/polygon forming the grid the correct way to do this?

Thanks!

Ofmesh [draw texture as one, over whole mesh]
Ofmesh [draw texture as one, over whole mesh]
#2

this article explains two ways of doing deformations of a quad http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/2012/05/26/quadrilateral-interpolation-part-1/

you want to do linear interpolation, but you’re doing projective interpolation.

that said, i’m not sure how to do linear interpolation across a quad when you’re fundamentally rendering triangles… i can think of some hacks, but there is probably a “correct” solution someone else knows :slight_smile:

#3

have you tried to create a mesh with texture coordinates for the image you want to map and then just move the vertices of the mesh?

also take a look at warpmap:

http://www.playmodes.com/index.php?option=com-content&view=article&id=118:warpmap-first-release-&catid=41:researchgeneral

it’s done in OF, i think they wanted to release the source but not sure if they’ve done it yet

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#4

To do linear interpolation,

kind of a shot from the hip:

have you tried to use the “noperspective” GLSL qualifier in the vertex / fragment shaders for your texture coordinates?

http://www.geeks3d.com/20130514/opengl-interpolation-qualifiers-glsl-tutorial/

it might work on mac opengl 2.0 using the

  
#extension GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 : require

flag similar to what i describe here: http://poniesandlight.com/notes/flat-shading-on-osx/

Also, if you use the new openGl 3.2 renderer (from current develop) you should get GLSL 150 for free on a mac =)

as said, not sure it works, but it could be something relatively cheap (the flag way) to try.

#5

@kyle
Exactly, I don’t see how linear interpolation would work in that case. It would produce the issue of the seem between the two triangles?

@arturo
The issue Playmodes’ WarpMap seems to have too

Thanks all for your help. If you have any other info send them my way :slight_smile:

#6

maybe the mysterious two neglected texture coordinates might help you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10832909/quad-strip-texturing-distortion

and

http://www.xyzw.us/~cass/qcoord/

with interpolation set to: perspective