[magick-users] Question about merging images - create curved images to merge on curved surface for 3D look.

[Riya Suthar]

Thanks for the reply. Anthony. I am adding URLs for three images

http://riyasuthar.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=m1
http://riyasuthar.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=m2
http://riyasuthar.myphotoalbum.com/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=m3

Thanks.
Bhavin

On 9/4/07, Anthony Thyssen <anthony at griffith.edu.au> wrote:
>
> "Riya Suthar" on  wrote...
> | Attached are few images
> |
> | m1.jpg - mug image
> | m2.jpg - image I want to impose on the mug
> | m3.jpg - final output should look like the attached image
> |
> Sorry Riya,  but the mail list does not allow attachments as a block
> against spammers.
>
> Please the images online somewhere (there are lots of free photo
> servers out there) and provide links to them.
>
> | I have been working on this for quite a while and have tried wave
> operator
> | but am not successful. Below are few specifications
> |
> | 1. Mug diameter is about 156 pixel. Circumference about 490 pixel. Front
> of
> | mug (visible in attached image) is about 156 pixel diameter (height of
> mug
> | is about 160 pixel) and about 245 pixel if you flatten the mug image.
> | 2. Image width (m2.jpg) is about 385 pixels.
> |
> | I tried using -wave 15x770, which gave me a curved image of m2.jpg. The
> I
> | tried cropping the image to extract 245 pixel (about 122.5 on either
> side of
> | center line).  Resizing the image to 156x160 (so that it can fit into
> the
> | center of the mug does not give me good result, since it aspect ratio of
> the
> | image is lost and the look of the final image is not the same as m3.jpg.
> |
> | Any ideas or help on above problem will be helpful.
> |
>
> Using the above description I believe I know what you plan to do.
>
> Wave works, but only gives a vertical distortion.
>
> You will also need to provide some sort of horizonal compression toward
> the edges, for this to work properly.
>
> I suggest you experiment a bit with some distortion maps.
> Either absolute coordinate mapps
>    http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distorts/#lut
> Or relative 'displacement' maps
>    http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/#displace
>
> Only a x direction distortion is needed, and best done AFTER the
> vertical distortion.
>
>
> There is lots of work in IM for distortion mapping, both in expanding
> capabilities, and in improved look of results.   Stay tuned!
>
>   Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
>
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