========================== Extended View Toolkit ========================== http://extendedview.mur.at Extended View Toolkit is an abstraction library for PureData towards panoramic imagery creation and projection mapping. Description ----------- Extended View Toolkit is a set of abstractions for combining multiple video or image sources into a panoramic image and for projection setups with mutliple projectors or projection environments with challenging geometric forms, better known as video mapping. Multiple input media (e.g. camera input, video files, image files, 3D renderings) can be processed. It is possible to create imagery or video by either stitching multiple inputs to one continuous, or by unwrapping a 360-degree image taken with a special optical lens system. Such processed media input can then be projected onto even irregular shaped surfaces. It is possible to blend smoothly between multiple projectors, to create seamless immersive media environments. Extended View Toolkit was originally created at the "Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics"/Graz within the CO-ME-DI-A project, lead by Winfried Ritsch for the art installation "Extended View" by Peter Venus. The CO-ME-DI-A project was supported by the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Comission for the period 2007 - 2010 (http://www.comedia.eu.org/). Getting started --------------- For an abstracion overview, open "01_ev_module_list.pd". Go through the examples, to learn about the possibilities of the toolkit. There are also individual help-patches for most of the modules. The abstractions are divided into groups by folders: "ev-in" abstractions for media input, i.e. video files, image files or camera input. "ev-main" general abstractions of the toolkit. "ev-pano" panoramic image or video creation "ev-pro" abstractions for video projection mapping. "ev-glsl" abstractions to load OpenGL shaders (contains subfolder with some shader files). There are also folders for additional files: "data" contains the state-saving data of the example patches. "media" contains media files, like videos or images. "libs" contains external libraries that are used by the toolkit. Requirements ------------ __Software:__ * PureData or Pd-extended (http://puredata.info/downloads) * Gem 0.92.3 or higher (included in Pd-extended or to be downloaded from http://gem.iem.at) * For OSC support, additional libraries may be nessecary (e.g. mrpeach, iemnet; included in Pd-extended) __Operating System:__ The abstractions have been tested on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), Mac OSX 10.6/10.7 and Microsoft Windows 7. __Hardware:__ Recent graphics hardware required to have access to full OpenGL capabilities of GEM __Following problems have to be considered:__ Connecting more than one USB camera of the same type to a Windows or Mac Computer requires lots of tweaking, but works fine under Linux. Source ------ https://github.com/extendedview/extended_view_toolkit Copyright/License ----------------- Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Peter Venus, Marian Weger, Cyrille Henry and IEM This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .