(I apologize in advance for the long post, I felt like it might be cool to document my progress with this)
For a while now I’ve been trying to do some basic projection mapping on the side of my condo, It still needs some work, but I thought i’d share my progress so far!
This post will be updated as I make more Progress!
#First “Proof of Concept” tests:
I needed somewhere small to start, so this is what I initially used as a test, to see if it even looked good.
As you can tell, it’s pretty barebones.
#Initial “Prototype”
This was the first real attempt to get proper projection mapping to work, it was roughly made and with little to no thought put into the actual scaling of the video and projector FOV settings.
You can see how I mapped each little section out into “Zones” (as I like to refer to them as), Obviously the scaling is way off, but it’s a step in the right direction.
#Prototype 2: Different colors, Better Mask, No scale/FOV Changes.
Unfortunately, I didn’t seem to take any screenshots of this version, and as of writing this, I’ve already “re-calibrated” the projector to work with my “Prototype 3” Mask. It wasn’t really any sort of improvement, save for more “Defined” zones.
(the mask for P-2)
#Prototype 3: First real success!
for this Prototype I completely scrapped my old mask, in favor of making a new one that had more definition.
(Rough “Blank” Mask for mapping video and animation)
(Colored Version that’ll eventually be projected as a test, Black spots are areas that aren’t being projected onto)
(First “Real” Progress in terms of getting the mapping to work, still a bit rough, but it’s all easy going from here (hopefully!)
#Prototype 4: The Final Prototype!
This is the final prototype projection map, and it mostly fixed the issues I had before, such as lining up certain zones.
Prototype V-4, Cleaned up, Maps better, “final prototype”
Due to a little hiccup, I neglected to take height into account, the result was a promising sign, but an unusable video…
However, I was able to get it working by today, which leads me to this,
The Final prototype video, Hopefully the last static video I use, From here on I’ll hopefully be moving into doing actual animations that’ll map to the condo!
#Prototype 7: Final Template#
Sorry for the bump, but this adds to my original post
Literally the same idea as 4, but actually works in HD, Versions 5 and 6 were the same as 4, but uploaded as HD, which oddly didn’t work.
Basically the very last template version. From here on, I can finally move onto actual test videos!
(it also helps that I don’t have to wait forever to see if the video actually works, I could have probably done this entire project in the course of an afternoon if I didn’t have to wait so long for the projections to work)
#FullTest-1#
More or less the first version that was made from a finalized template and didn’t require actual work to get working correctly.
More or less a collection of images/colors mapped to each segment, to illustrate the potential possibilities even further. I also decided to change most of the condo’s exterior so the videos show up better.
#Holiday Projects#
So now that I have an actual working system, I can start actually designing stuff for Holidays like Halloween and Christmas, Which led me to this:
This’ll be the base I use for both projects, Halloween will take on a more shuttered look, while Christmas will have more holiday stuff (Lights, Wreathes, Snow, etc)
Hopefully at least a few of you found this interesting, More will be added eventually, once I get a few new videos made for it!
