Friday, November 01, 2013

[uwdojajr] Deforming a grid

Continuously deform an image around a center such that points near the center are magnified, points a middle distance away are compressed, and points far away are mostly unaffected.  Sometimes called the Loupe effect, but we don't want a discontinuity at the edge of the loupe.

I think S shaped curves and their derivatives will be useful.

Also allow elliptical loupe areas.

The motivation was to take an image of text and make it hard to OCR.

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