r/video_mapping

How to find such videos for projector mapping or these made by the guys. Like i wanna map such cool tyings but i am unable to find such vids etc. Please if anyone knows where to find help me with these.

[Self-Promo] and i am the creator Soo with just a phone , a wireless camera (IR Camera) and a projector , We can do crazy animations with live BodyTracking and segmentation . And did i mentioned it is running on a phone!!???? Okay tbh this feature requires quite heavy compute resource ( On newer iphone Pro models like 15,16,17 or an m1 + ipad pro or leatest android Phones with 16GB Ram ) , But still!!!! on a phone!!! and in real-time . And also available on macOS and Windows(Coming Soon)

Soo Surfabeam is a mobile projection mapping app available for both Android and iOS.

For Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secundumreality.surfabeam&pcampaignid=web\_share

For iOS / MacOS: https://apps.apple.com/pk/app/surfabeam-projection-mapping/id6755757897

Website : https://www.surfabeam.com

#projectionmapping #surfabeam #videomapping #digitalmapping #3Dprojectionmapping
#digitalart

Hello dear community!

I've been taking advantage of Fable to help me build a tool that i've been missing for a long time at this point. I called it ComfyDesigner. I guess some of you might be familiar with the complete lack of true integration between GenAI tools and traditional projection software like Touchdesigner. I always found that it was a nightmare to use AI workflow with projection mapping software.

That's what motivated me to blend both ComfyUI and TouchDesigner together.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of features included, keep in mind it's still very much a WIP :

- Native cluster architecture : many times I'm a bit lacking of power to run what i want on my laptop or my laptop is far away from projectors or camera i use. That's why I built this project to be natively working as a cluster. My current testing setup includes a 5090 computer that i use as a server that does most of the heavy lifting, accessible remotely if needed, a raspberry pi 4 2gb that usually only handles webcam(s) and projector, and my laptop, on which most of the time i dont run the software on because all the devices are on the same LAN but might be useful in case of WAN to reduce latency on some parts of the workflow. This makes I think for a very flexible architecture.

- Everything is a plugin : the software has been built from the ground up to be suuuper easily extendable with plugins like you would with ComfyUI. Integrating new nodes should be super easy when a new feature is requested or a new model come out

- Browser first : Something that has been bothering me a lot with TouchDesigner is it's monolitycal architecture and restrictions on the hardware on which you can control it. I loved the ComfyUI approach that you can run remotely on your laptop or even on your phone

- OpenSource in the heart : I've been very disappointed with the way the community handled sharing around TouchDesigner and in a lesser way with ComfyUI. It is a shame that workflows and plugins are sometime paywalled limiting the actual sharing of knowledge and the growing of a community. This is why this software will be 100% open source with special licence for companies willing to not share their work. Hopefully it should avoid the community to be gutted with patreons while allowing people who need to keep their work private to be able to. The absolute goal as you understand is to keep it free for artist and to try to make a buck on companies or museum using it in events (if it happens at any time :p )

Now a little example to give you a little preview of the project :

The pictures you will find above are webui screenshots. The setup is my usual, Raspberry pi4, connected to a usb webcam and an hdmi projector, both looking in the same direction, the software running on my 5090 server, and I'm working from my laptop browser. In the workflow on the screenshots, I'm doing a structured light scan to calibrate the projection POV with the webcam one (Hello LightForm :p), then taking the produce map to warp the webcam image, allowing me to reproject on the object or wall im projecting on aligning textures and shapes together. I also get the webcam of my laptop through the web browser on which I apply a mask using mediapipe to segment myself from the selfie, i composite both images (the warped webcam and the laptop webcam filming myself) and do an OpenCV edge detection on the composite. I then inject that inside FluxRT that generates high quality interactive video at around 40 to 50fps with a latency around 1sec. This is a simple example but I want to extend it with MIDI control from instruments connected through the browser.

I WILL publish the project in a near future but i would like to iron a few bugs before!

It has been a few week that I'm very excited with this project and wanted to see a bit the feeling of the community around this project, do you find it interesting? what features would you want to see? do you see projects it could help you with? specific workflows?

This lengthy post obviously hasn't been written with AI :p

For the mods, as I'm not sure this would be considered as branding I did put the promotion flare on ;)

Quick mid-beta update on FieldLux, the browser-based projection planning and handoff tool a few of you have been trying out.

Like I said last time, it stays free through August while I keep working on the beta. So please poke at it and tell me what breaks.

Here's what's new:

Rear projection + per-part materials
Assign different materials to individual layers of a model. A window, a scrim, and a wall no longer have to share one surface. Rear projection, scrim, blackout, and physical materials (clearcoat, IOR) are all in. Right-click a layer or open Object settings to edit.

Real luminance heatmap (cd/m²)
This is the one I most want eyes on. Alongside surface lux and pixel density, there's now a luminance mode showing actual perceived brightness on the surface. It factors in incidence angle, so an angled face reads dimmer like it should. Probe points show cd/m² directly, built on standard photometric math.

Surface primitives
Dome, cylinder, curved wall, flat surface, and basic room. Quick blocking before you bring in real geometry.

Circular projector arrays
Ring your projectors around a pivot with count, radius, and arc control. Live preview, then bake. Handy for domes and 360 setups.

It's still a beta, and the material and surface side has rough edges. I'd rather hear about them now than later.

Coming in August: lighting fixtures and a desktop app.

Try it (no install, runs in browser): https://field-lux.com
Discord (bugs, requests, or just lurk): https://discord.gg/6aurm9MREg

If you do real mapping work, I'd love your read on the luminance side especially. That's the part I most want to nail before this leaves beta.

Does anyone know how this map was created in order to make it interactive like that? What program you’d use to create it and how to get it to automate? Just having a tough time trying to find the right phrase to research how to go about this. Thank you!

Recently, I saw some projection mapping content on Instagram and immediately fell down a rabbit hole and immediately bought a BenQ projector off eBay. Everyone on Instagram was using MadMapper and I read that it was around $200 which felt reasonable. Went to actually buy it and saw $579. Yikes.

I'm a software developer by day so I had to take matters into my own hands and try to make the process as friction-free as possible. The thing that frustrated me most about existing solutions (beyond the price) was always having to import your own media. As a result, I built video search directly into the app powered by Pexels, Pixabay and Giphy (millions of free videos and GIFs without leaving the app).

Everything is available on the free tier (media search, curved edges, cutout mode, export to video file). The only thing behind the paywall is unlimited shapes (one shape is free).

Would love to hear feedback from people who actually know projection mapping. Happy to answer any questions about how it works.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/happymapper/id6768839126
Site: happymapper.live

Hi everyone,

I need to create a projection mapping on the façade of a building that is about 20 meters wide. I have an EPSON EB-L30000U projector available, and I have to install it exactly 20 meters away, so I need to use the Epson ELPLU05 (0.90–1.09:1) lens.

That should result in an image of around 1000 inches. I noticed that the projector specifications state it supports screen sizes from 100 to 1000 inches, and the manual specifically lists this lens as compatible.

My question is whether I should expect any focus issues at this image size, or if I can rely on the lens to maintain good focus across the entire image.

Does anyone have direct experience with this setup?

For a long time, the biggest wall I hit in projection mapping wasn’t the hardware or the mapping software—it was the content creation. Every new theme meant starting from a blank canvas: the concept, the video loops, the props, and the textures. It was the most draining part of every project, and it’s the exact bottleneck that stops most people from ever getting started.

I’ve been a software developer for 31 years, and eventually, I just got tired of the friction. I wanted to focus on the projection, not staring at an empty timeline. So, I built FacadeThemes.

The story behind it:

I started as a neighborhood hobbyist (HeavyM Ambassador) who wanted to do something better than the standard inflatables. It took months perfecting the "full-stack" setup—weatherproof rigs, autonomous PCs, FM audio, the works—but the asset creation remained a manual slog.

FacadeThemes is the tool I spent the last several months building to solve that. You upload a photo of your house, and the system uses an AI-powered pipeline to propose complete themes and generate the ready-to-map assets: structural props, transparent layers, kinetic video loops, and curated soundtracks.

Everything comes out as standard files, so it drops right into HeavyM, MadMapper, or whatever mapping tool you’re already running.

I’m really curious to get some eyes on this from folks who are actually in the trenches with their own facades. It’s live at facadethemes.com if you want to try an upload and see the automation in action.

I’d love to hear your thoughts—what’s the one part of the mapping/content workflow you hate the most? I built this to kill the bottlenecks, so let me know what’s still slowing you down.

I have included some pictures of my work and the rig that I built for myself and my neighbor.

Two Panasonic laser projectors converged
3 walls mapped with QLab to one surface
3 walls and scrims masked with QLab