Abstract: Implementations provide method that includes: accessing data encoding the one or more images sized and shaped for presentation on a square or rectangular surface; providing the first set of data for warping by one or more computer processors such that each of the one or more images is projected onto a respective trapezoidal surface having a first base and a second base that is longer than the first base, wherein the first base is arranged to be closer to a viewer than the second base, and wherein a first portion of each image is projected further away from the viewer than a second portion of each image; and presenting each of the projected one or more images on the respective trapezoidal surface, wherein the first portion of each projected image is presented by the first base and the second portion of each projected image is presented by the second base.

Abstract: Implementations provide method that includes: accessing data encoding the one or more images sized and shaped for presentation on a square or rectangular surface; providing the first set of data for warping by one or more computer processors such that each of the one or more images is projected onto a respective trapezoidal surface having a first base and a second base that is longer than the first base, wherein the first base is arranged to be closer to a viewer than the second base, and wherein a first portion of each image is projected further away from the viewer than a second portion of each image; and presenting each of the projected one or more images on the respective trapezoidal surface, wherein the first portion of each projected image is presented by the first base and the second portion of each projected image is presented by the second base.

Abstract: A vector based mosaic design system has a graphical processing module, a display module, a plugin application module and memory, and it operates to receive an original input image and mosaic design information from an artist. The plugin module has logical instructions that operate on the information received from the artist to determine the position of curves that are offset from a mosaic design region boundary or feature curve, and the plugin also operates to determine the positions and dimensions of tiles in courses that are defined by the positions of feature curves and curves that are offset from them.

Abstract: A vector based mosaic design system has a graphical processing module, a display module, a plugin application module and memory, and it operates to receive an original input image and mosaic design information from an artist. The plugin module has logical instructions that operate on the information received from the artist to determine the position of curves that are offset from a mosaic design region boundary or feature curve, and the plugin also operates to determine the positions and dimensions of tiles in courses that are defined by the positions of feature curves and curves that are offset from them.

Abstract: A system and related method for automatically aligning a plurality of 2D images of a scene to a first 3D model of the scene. The method includes providing a plurality of 2D images of the scene, generating a second 3D model of the scene based on the plurality of 2D images, generating a transformation between the second 3D model and the first 3D model based on a comparison of at least one of the plurality of 2D images to the first 3D model, and using the transformation to automatically align the plurality of 2D images to the first 3D model.