From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Use MetaPost to distort images?
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 18:24:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cd61bb7-9f65-41c2-53f1-55489f9fa8f7@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BA499834-4E4E-49C2-B3CD-06DBA1489FDB@fiee.net>
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On 9/3/2021 12:28 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to apply geometric transformations to images using MetaPost?
>
> This is again way over my head, but I’m still trying different methods to let a ConTeXt document look more “hand-made”.
>
> In my example*, I added frame and shadow to a photo and _distorted_ it slightly to have it look like a postcard was glued on the page (with a piece of tape). I’d like to automate and randomize that process.
>
> I guess I could achieve something similar with ImageMagick (not with GraphicsMagick), but if it would be possible inside LMTX that would be great.
the question is not so much if it can be done but how far we should go
in doing things .. so, only as friday afternoon distraction, and because
i wanted to upload anyway (not done yet) i'll meta-imp-magick that uses
the gm lib interface (that only does simple conversions, but i added
bur and noise an dcan add some more if needed as long as there is no
weird stuff or code bloat)
not in the core, just as 'imp' because we don't want library
dependencies (and the optional libs are lightweight delayed loading ones)
now, the drawback of course is that one needs gm installed (quite large)
but it does work on my windows box so ...
here is the educational part:
% we load the library
\registerctxluafile{libs-imp-graphicsmagick}{autosuffix}
% we define the lua end of the mp plugin
\startluacode
function mp.lmt_magick_convert()
local specification = metapost.getparameterset("magick")
local inputname = specification.filename
if inputname then
-- we don't want to trigger reuse when we have the same
input file
local hash = md5.HEX(table.sequenced(specification))
local outputname = file.addsuffix("m_k_i_v_mp_fuzzy_" ..
hash,file.suffix(inputname))
luatex.registertempfile(outputname)
-- make the table a bit unique and don't polute it
local whattodo = table.setmetatableindex( {
inputname = inputname,
outputname = outputname,
}, specification)
-- now do the magick
utilities.graphicsmagick.convert(whattodo)
-- and return the result
return [[figure("]] .. outputname .. [[")]]
else
-- bad luck
return [[textext("missing filename")]]
end
end
\stopluacode
% we define the lmt_ plugin
\startMPdefinitions
presetparameters "magick" [
filename = "unset",
% blur = [ radius = 10, sigma = 5 ],
% noise = [ type = 4 ],
] ;
def lmt_magick = applyparameters "magick" "lmt_do_magick" enddef ;
vardef lmt_do_magick = lua.mp.lmt_magick_convert() enddef ;
\stopMPdefinitions
% and this is how that one is used
\startMPpage
draw lmt_magick [
filename = "hacker.jpg",
blur = [ radius = 10, sigma = 5 ],
noise = [ type = 2 ],
] ysized 4cm ;
draw lmt_magick [
filename = "hacker.jpg",
blur = [ radius = 5, sigma = 3 ],
noise = [ type = 4 ],
] ysized 4cm shifted (0, -4cm) ;
draw lmt_magick [
filename = "hacker.jpg",
blur = [ radius = 10, sigma = 5 ],
noise = [ type = 4 ],
] ysized 4cm shifted (0, -8cm) ;
\stopMPpage
% you can add ornaments to this of course using other mp commands like
% putting it on top of your postcard paper
% as you see, there is not even that much code involved (apart from
% some in the lib module but that is also rather minimalistic
% the result is attached
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 10:28 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-09-03 16:24 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2021-09-04 12:18 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-09-04 17:06 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-09-05 7:40 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-09-05 8:10 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-09-05 9:34 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-09-06 2:13 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-09-06 8:42 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-09-05 8:46 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2021-09-03 22:16 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2021-09-04 11:59 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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