Re: [Gimp-developer] GSOC 2013 - n-point image deformation

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Marek Dvoroznak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to participate in this year's GSOC. As a school project, I
> implemented as-rigid-as-possible (and as-similar-as-possible) n-point
> image deformation. I've thought it would be useful to have a tool
> implementing this in GIMP. I know that at the moment similar effect can
> be achieved with Cage Transform tool, but with n-point image deformation
> it's much easier.
>
> I planned to make a plugin implementing this type of deformation as a
> part of my thesis, but unfortunately I had to change my thesis' topic.
>
> Could this be a suitable project for GSOC under GIMP?
>
> I'm attaching a link to a video clip showing a character deformed using
> Cage Transform tool and also using as-rigid-as-possible deformation:
> http://youtu.be/ieaHvHAcNRE

So this is more like Puppet Warp really :) And it does look very impressive!

IMHO, it would be a great GSoC project.

How is it performance-wise? How well does it work on fairly large images?

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org