Projection mapping addon for openFrameworks that runs on the Raspberry Pi.

OfxPiMapper is there for people who want to use the Raspberry Pi to create standalone mapping installations. Let's say someone has 10 generative mapping pieces and gets an offer to exhibit them in an art gallery, museum or any other kind of place. 10 expensive computers? No! OfxPiMapper is here to save you!

The project started as master's thesis project by Krisjanis Rijnieks at the Helsinki Media Lab. Currently undergoing changes. Expect the API to be incompatible with your projects from the past or present-day.

Consult the Installation section if you are using ofxPiMapper the first time. Some of the most frequently asked questions and answers can be found in the FAQ document.

The following is a list of key features ofxPiMapper has.

• Open Source
  You can use ofxPiMapper free of charge, the only requirement being adding reference to the authors of the project somewhere. Consult the LICENSE.md file.
• Simple User Interface
  The user interface of ofxPiMapper has been designed by keeping in mind that there is only one screen, a keyboard and a mouse.
• Out of the Box
  You can use the example project for simple projection mapping projects with image or video sources out of the box.
• Customizable
  Use ofxPiMapper as an addon and enjoy the power of custom generative sources by extending the FboSource class.
• Undoable
  Since version 0.2.3 ofxPiMapper supports undo.
• Nerd Remote Control via SSH (not working at the moment) All the functions can be triggered by using the keyboard and via SSH CLI connection. See SSH Remote Control section to learn more.
• More to Come
  Expect more conventional projection mapping software features to be implemented.

You can use the example application of the addon for simple projection mapping projects where static images or videos have to be projection mapped.

1. Put your own sources in the example/bin/data/sources directory. Consult the ofxOMXPlayer documentation on how to encode your videos.

2. Compile and run the example project.

cd openFrameworks/addons/ofxPiMapper/example make && make run

3. Use the `-f` flag to launch it fullscreen.  

```bash
./bin/example -f

OfxPiMapper features FBO sources that allow you to create generative openFrameworks patches to be used with ofxPiMapper. Extend the FboSource class, override setup(), update() and draw() methods and then create an instance of your custom source to add it to your ofxPiMapper object.

Reuse the example app by copying it to your apps directory.

cp -R openFrameworks/addons/ofxPiMapper/example openFrameworks/apps/myApps/
cd openFrameworks/apps/myApps
mv example myOfxPiMapperApp

The most part of development happens in the dev branch. Once a set of features is added, the dev branch is merged with the master branch.

1. Develop in the dev branch.
2. Merge the dev branch into the master branch once a set of features are added.
3. Add a version tag.
4. If there is a need for a quickfix, it can be added to the master branch directly. In that case a new version tag has to be made.

The set of features is defined per milestone. Each milestone is an increase in the minor part of the version number. Milestone examples: 0.3.0, 0.4.0, etc.

The quickfixes increase the patch part of the version. 0.3.0 becomes 0.3.1 and 0.4.0 becomes 0.4.1 in the case of a quicfix.

ofxPiMapper is distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for further details.

To set up your Raspberry Pi, go to the Raspberry Pi website and follow the instructions there.

Another thing you need is a working openFrameworks installation. Follow the guide to set up your Raspberry Pi.

• Raspberry Pi oF Setup Guide

Clone this (the ofxPiMapper) repository into your openFrameworks/addons folder. If your openFrameworks installation on the Pi resides in the home directory, you have to type the following in the terminal:

cd ~/openFrameworks/addons
git clone https://github.com/kr15h/ofxPiMapper.git

Before moving on, make sure that you have all the dependencies installed.

• ofxGui (available in oF by default)
• ofxXmlSettings (available in oF by default)
• ofxIO
• ofxOMXPlayer

To install dependencies, cd into openFrameworks/addons directory and execute the following:

git clone https://github.com/jvcleave/ofxOMXPlayer.git && git clone https://github.com/bakercp/ofxIO.git

The ofxOMXPlayer addon recommends you to use its releases. Currently the latest release is 0.9.0-compatible. To checkout the code of the relase, go to the ofxOMXPlayer addon directory and checkout the relase.

cd openFrameworks/addons/ofxOMXPlayer
git checkout 0.9.0-compatible

You can check the latest releases on the ofxOMXPlayer GitHub repository.

To test the addon, you will have to compile and run it:

cd ~/openFrameworks/addons/ofxPiMapper/example
make && make run

After it compiles, run it with either make run or ./bin/example. You can exit the application by pressing ESC or Ctrl + C.

It will take a while first (not so long on the RPi 2), but once it runs, press 1, 2, 3 and 4 keys to switch between modes of the software. Switch to mode 3 at first to select a surface. Afterwards you will be able to edit the texture mapping of it in mode 2 and choose a source in mode 4. Mode 1 is the presentation mode. It is activated on start by default.

Right now a keyboard and a mouse has to be used in order to do the mapping with ofxPiMapper.

PiMapper has 4 modes:

1. Presentation mode
2. Texture mapping mode
3. Surface editing mode
4. Source assignment mode

You can access these modes by pressing 1, 2, 3 or 4 respectively.

This mode is activated once the application starts up. It does not show anything else except the final projection mapping as it was saved previously.

In this mode you can adjust the texture coordinates of the surface you have selected in the surface editing mode.

Here you can select, move and distort the surfaces you have created.

After you select a surface in surface editing mode, activate this mode to be able to choose a source for the surface. Afterwards you might want to go to the texture mapping mode to adjust texture coordinates.

These other shortcuts that you can use while using the example app.

• | Scale surface up

• | Scale surface down p | toggle perspective warping (quad surfaces only) ] | add columns to grid surface (grid warp surfaces only) [ | remove columns from grid surface (grid warp surfaces only) } | add rows to grid surface (grid warp surfaces only) { | remove rows from grid surface (grid warp surfaces only) . | select next surface (projection mapping mode only) , | select previous surface (projection mapping mode only)

| select next vertex < | select previous vertex 0 | Move selected surface one layer up 9 | Move selected surface one layer down f | Toggle fullscreen s | Save composition z | Undo BACKSPACE ('' via SSH) | Delete surface. SPACE | Toggle pause for video sources (texture and projection mapping modes) TAB | Select next source (no need to use the source selection interface) Arrow keys | Move selection. If no surface is selected in the projection mapping mode, all surfaces are moved.

You can enter a SSH session with your networked Raspberry Pi, launch the ofxPiMapper executable and access all the functionality by using the keyboard. Use the same commands listed in the above table, use / as the replacement for the SHIFT key as it is not that easy to capture SHIFT keypress when on SSH. The / works as a toggle, you have to press it once to simulate SHIFT_DOWN and one more time to simulate SHIFT_UP. It is particularly important when moving surfaces and vertices over long distances. The / key enables 10px steps when pressing arrow buttons.

Tested with openFrameworks 0.9.2 (OS X and Raspbian Jessie Lite). It works.

TODO: Add a matrix with oF versions and OS's ofxPiMapper is tested on.