[SOLVED] CLI : Is There A Script To Skew Image With A Curve

Looking for a script that will skew an image for me through the command line.

The skew needs be a curve; stead the angle skews offered by imagemagick or lunapic.


I want it to look like it is placed up in a celestial sphere.
Basically able to fit inside of these boxes.

Thanks.


... fred's scripts: skew ... http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/skew/index.php
... lunapic.com ... http://www.lunapic.com/editor/?action=skew
... wiki: Celestial Sphere ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_sphere
... wireframe of inside sphere ... http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-fr...-image11717706

You might need to use something like Povray.

Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking at the software now and it seems like a 3D image renderer, but do you know if it can or how to manipulate 2D images to appear to be resting on the inside of an invisible sphere?

Looks like it can, using hollow spheres.


Installing now, I will update if it works.


... http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.0/155/

I've used blender rather than povray. I think you want to use the pictures as textures.Getting the lighting and environment right may be the hardest part.

Now that I have had some time to play around with it, I have POVRay acting as I had hoped.
Here is the setup:

The .pov and .ini files are sort of hacked up from multiple sources.
For the layout and bulk of the .ini and .pov files :: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~msel...ay/povray.html
For the sphere texture :: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_876e.htm

Also the texture is applied to the outside of the sphere so for the image to be viewed from inside out and have the proper view you will have to transform the image as a horizontal mirror image.

# convert -flop InIMG.jpg OutIMG.jpg

MYPOVFILE.ini

Input_File_Name=MYPOVFILE.pov                         ; input file name(s)
;Library_Path=

+W400 +H400                                           ; resolution: W(idth) times H(ight)
Display=on

Quality=9                                             ; 0 .. 11 (best), default: 9
Bounding=on
;Bounding_Threshold=25
Light_Buffer=on                                       ; (requires bounding on)
Vista_Buffer=on                                       ; (requires bounding on)
Antialias=on
Sampling_Method=1                                     ; 1 or 2 (both adaptive, 2 recursive)
Antialias_Threshold=0.1                               ;
Antialias_Depth=6                                     ; 1 .. 9 (best), default: 6
Jitter=on                                             ;
Jitter_Amount=1.0                                     ; 0.0 .. 1.0 (best)
Field_Render=off

Output_to_File=on
Output_File_Type=N                                    ; N for PNG
Output_Alpha=off
Bits_per_Color=16                                     ; 8 .. 16 for PNG
;Output_File_Name=

;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

;Initial_Frame=0
;Final_Frame=36
;Initial_Clock=0
;Final_Clock=1

MYPOVFILE.pov

global_settings
{  ambient_light <1,1,1>
   assumed_gamma 1
}
camera
{ 
 location <-.3,0,0>  
//x,y,z
//x=.1+ rotate90cw move down; x=-.1- rotate90ccw move down
//y=.1+ move down; y=-.1- move down flip
//z=.1+ zoom ; z=-.1- zoomout
   up z
   right x                                   
   look_at <170,0,270>
//x move camera left to right
//y move camera up and down
//z  0,0,270 straight on view
}
light_source
{  <0,0,0>
   color rgb <1,1,1>
   media_interaction on
   media_attenuation on
   shadowless
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
sphere{ <0,0,0>, 0.5
        texture{ pigment{ color rgb<1, 1,1>}
                 finish { diffuse 0.9 phong 0.1}
               } // end of texture 1

        texture{ pigment{
                 image_map{ gif "cmailoFLOP.gif"
                            map_type 0
                            once
                          }
                 translate<-0.5,-0.5,0>
                 scale<1,1,1>*0.35
                 } // end pigment
               } // end of texture 2
  } // end of sphere  ------------------


//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Simply move around the camera's location and look_at attributes and you can achieve any view angle of an image superimposed on a concave curved surface.
Keep the values small, ie .1, .3, else you may go outside the sphere.

# ls

# povray MYPOVFILE.ini
# ls
MYPOVFILE.png

To make the white background transparent...

# convert -transparent white MYPOVFILE.png MYTRANSPARFILE.png

Endless thanks to jschiwal for suggesting POVRay!