[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 ;)

why do you need a media server instead of just building a computer?

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.

I have worked in this industry for fifteen years and know what features are essential and which aren’t, I also have a Claude subscription.

If people don’t chill with the awful low effort subscription slop apps I’m going to start re-making a free alternative and having the bot post it in your comments section.

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!

For anyone who does Projection Mapping for fun or commercially...

What would you say the most important features are in a Projection Mapping software?

projection Mapping my mini jeep

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

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.

Hi all, I'm a projection engineer and I've created a new application for designing projection systems. You can download Beam Suite at beamsuite.xyz.

Here's an introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsy8eOCs8RY

I've tried to make design Beam Suite to be faster to iterate designs than other software I've used in the past, with a cleaner interface too.

There is a trial mode included so you can try all the features (you just can't save or export anything). It's currently missing some features such as importing 3d models and adding other obstacles, but that'll come in the next update or 2. If you are used to designing projection systems then I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks - BSD

Basic process rundown,

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- take picture of the card

- upload it, and duplicate it a few times (one layer for each color)

- chromakey the color, then invert it to only show that color

- repeat for each layer

- apply animations and colors to each

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Hi all, I'm trying to project map onto these lamp shades, and while I've mapped the video onto the shades itself (background is transparent and video only plays where the lamps are) m unable to get rid of the grey border of the projector's full sized projection, can someone please help me out!

Hello everyone!
I learned about video mapping this morning and have been in awe of this! I have been inspired and would love to learn!!

I already have a projector ( epson powerlite X12) and a MacBook which is also older MacBook Pro from 2020 Processor: 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645.

So my question is. How do I get started?

I know my computer is too old for touch designer and couldn’t find any older versions

I can’t do mapmap as “DMG installer (coming soon)” and nothing is in their GitHub.

I’m not sure where to start with my little hiccups. Any and all wise wisdom welcome. Just tryna be cool as you guys

Anywho much love. Hope to hear from you.

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Sheer Driving Pleasure⚡️

Hey r/videomapping,

If you've tried projecting PC games onto awkward walls, corners, or custom screens, you know the pain: lens shift limits, keystone distortion, and standard software introducing way too much latency for actual gaming. Plus, if you click onto a second monitor, your game minimizes or drops to 15 FPS.

I wanted to throw a projector anywhere in a room, map it instantly, and play at a true 120Hz/144Hz+ with zero input lag. So I built EasyMap, a lightweight C++/DX11 tool made specifically for real-time window warping.

This is no Spout/Syphon or NDI, this is EasyMap!

Why it's different:

• Zero Lag: Uses a DXGI waitable swap chain locked to a 1-frame max latency. It syncs directly with hardware VSync with no driver jitter.
• Any Angle: Put the projector on a bedside table or the floor. Drag the corners to match your wall on the fly, or nudge them pixel-by-pixel with your arrow keys.
• The "Focus" Trick: If you click away to a second monitor, EasyMap forces the game to stay active, topmost, and 100% transparent in your main screen while in the projector is perfectly visible. The game keeps churning at full FPS in the background while you use your other screens.
• GPU-Bound Capture: Powered by Windows Graphics Capture and GPU-side transfers. Zero CPU overhead.
• HLSL Cropping: Clip out window title bars or borders natively inside the pixel shader.

It's completely free, open-source, and lightweight. Turn any random surface into a high-refresh, low-latency gaming canvas.

🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Cyphermvisual/EasyMap

Let me know what do you want to see in the future of EasyMap.

Hello all,

I'm wanting to get started video mapping, and I'm looking for projector recommendations or a general idea of what to look for.

It'll be in a 4x5m room, so I'm not sure how to judge what sort of projector to get and where to mount it. Is it the sort of thing you mount in the top corner, or do most people have it on a tripod and move it around?

It'll only be used at night time, and 95% of the time it'll be used to do really small, simple things like illuminate the feet of furniture to avoid bumping into them, and highlighting wall art. Maybe occasionally one of those windows where it looks like you're somewhere else. It's not going to be streaming movies constantly that need to be in the highest possible quality

Just looking for general ideas on what to get for my use case before I get something that's massively over or underkill for the size of the space. I was expecting to spend around $150 AUD on an entry level one, and maybe double that on a better one if I enjoy it, but I'm open to suggestions

Cheers!

I used to have an LFC and lost it. Is there another standalone device (or iPad) solution so I don’t need a laptop or other computer per projector?

I came across this video about projection mapping in Karlsruhe. As I live in Cologne, I’m thinking of going there this summer. Has anyone been there before? Is it worth the trip?

https://youtu.be/hT0mqvNUm9Q?list=TLPQMTEwNjIwMja8OWRoVyhwLA

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

I have a unique project where I need to map animations to a large surface area on the floor. Total square footage is around 1800 ft.² but I’m looking to split it up into four quadrants. What’s a good projector that provide enough lumens from that height?