A simple simulation of standard camera distortions. In Processing, the warping effect is achieved in the same way that one might distort the face of a comic transferred onto silly putty. The scene is rendered normally, and the image buffer is captured and mapped onto a uniform grid. Then, the uniform grid points are displaced by a distortion algorithm. To simulate simple camera distortions, the points are moved radially from the center with a magnitude proportional to their distance.

Unfortunately, reading the pixels into a buffer and rerendering them tends to be a bottleneck, so the technique is not necessarily practical in a real time context.

Files

• Source (zip)(view online)
• built with Processing
• uses Raytracing
• uses SGCamera
• uses SGQuickVar
• uses Tuple
• Standalone
• Blender Models
• struct.blend

by Matthew Kozak
All code GPL
All else... bananas?