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I'm trying to figure out an easier way of doing a cube effect. That is, putting 3 different pictures on 3 faces of a cube.

Something like this, but without the rotation:
http://www.isotope244.com/i/pc_large_cube.jpg

Any ideas?

Something like this ?

http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk./imagemagic ... o=cube.png

Bonzo,

Following your link, on the page that comes up, the link http://www.rubble.info/gallery/gallery.php requires the user to log-in. Would like to see your working example.

Fred

That will work now Fred

Edit: A differnt layout but basicly the same method - there is an imagemap behind the photos and when you select one it opens a URL

The imagemap - http://www.rubble.info/gallery/gallery_map.gif

When I upload some images I can run a code that adds the text, the borders, rotates the images, puts the images on the background then creates the imagemap to reflect the size, layout and oriantation of the photos.

The power of php and Im

That's great start. It's more of an isometric image, it's missing the 3d perspective.

http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/Perspect/PerCube.GIF

Yes it was only something I was messing about with when I was bored one day !

You could use the distort rather than the shear for that.

http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick ... fo=box.png

That's great start. It's more of an isometric image, it's missing the 3d perspective.

http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/Perspect/PerCube.GIF

IM can do perspective, but you still need to create each image properly and composite them so as to form your cube. IM does not have any function at this time that will take multiple images and automatically create a cube as you want it (to my knowledge). But it is all possible with multiple IM commands or a script, if you want to put one together or modify the one from Bonzo.

see -distort perspective in the IM commands

Bonzo wrote:Yes it was only something I was messing about with when I was bored one day !

You could use the distort rather than the shear for that.

http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick ... fo=box.png

You mention in the linked page that the lines did not join. It mat be that your control points are not quite right. Try positioning them with a .5 pixel position so the aliasing overlaps. Do use a +distort option so the resulting image is sized to fit the distorted image. Then 'layer' the two resulting images together using -layers merge, and only then JUNK the virtual canvas offset. This what the control points you define, regardless of if they are positive or negative, will match up and you image will be complete.

Also the line should not be parallel to the bottom of the image! It is perspective after all!

Also the image coordinate should be 1 less than the image size!!!

here are my test commands NOTE that the coordinate order is different and bozzo's coordinates was generated while the -distort command was still in an experimental state.

I am however noticing that the spine image while being transformed correctly, appeared to have been transformed as if it was offset. I have not been able to determine where the mistake lies (the above code, or in the IM code).

the above script will be available in a couple of days at
http://imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/box_set_example

Addendum: the above works if I add a -repage +10+0\! just after reading the spine image. So there is a definite bug in the IM code, where the read in image appears to have the wrong virtual canvas offset (of -10+0 ), even though the image actually does not have this offset. Looking into the fault!

Okay. It was not a bug in IM, but a bug in the script. and I have fixed it.

Basically the spline was only 40 pixels wide, but I was distorting it as if it was 50 pixels wide. the last convert command should have been...
I have fixed this in the "box_set_example" script, which will appear on the offical IM Examples scripts area in a day or too (see link above).

Finally the reason the horizontal line did not match was that it was drawn on the spine line was draw with a x offset set of '30'.
On the front of the box however it was drawn at '170' which was suposed to be 30 pixels from the bottom of the image (which is 200) pixel high. However as the bottom 'pixel' position is actually '199', that '170' should have been '169' pixels. Changing the front box line to '169', and the two lines now match up properly.

Here is the scripts output after the two 'bugs' in the script were corrected...

I have just created a script, 3Dbox, built upon Anthony Thyssens excellent examples (http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distorts/#cube3d and http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/distorts/#box3d), to allow one to create perspective (or isometric) views of a box at any orientation with pictures on each of its sides. The script is available at

http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.html

The script can be used within another script (examples provided) to animate the box so that it rotates about its centroid.