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

[Marek Dvoroznak <dvoromar gmail com>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:48:17 +0100, Michael Muré wrote:
> The reason the cage tool is slow is that a set of coefficient is
> computed and used to deform every single pixel inside the cage. The
> plan was indeed to use the poly2tri-C to mesh the cage and move that
> instead of each pixels.

That would speed it up a lot I think.

> Another thing to look at is the new Free Transform Tool of Krita, wich
> looks quite awesome: http://krita.org/item/131-free-transform-tool

Thank you for the information. I didn't know that Krita has it
implemented.

> It's based on this paper: http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/schaefer/research/mls.pdf

My proposed implementation is also based on this paper but with some
differences. I should make a proposal with more details – but it'll take
some time.

Marek