garageCube

Dear all,

I am working on a stage project and trying to match a 3D-model of our set design with the actual projection – in order to work with virtual "light effects".
Each time after I have finished the calibration tool, the object somehow disappears. I am not able to modify the mesh, add texture, grid or anything. It is not visible in the output section and the output itself. If I am editing the calibration, the object re-appears in the calibration mode.

Someone experienced this as well? Any ideas?

Best,
Chris

It may happen when the object is too flat. The calibration matrix computed in some case looks wrong, but it shouldn't happen if you have volume. If you can't solve it, send your 3D object to support[at]garagecube[dot]com we'll have a look at it.

Hi mad-matt,

thanks a lot. Due to short time I worked around the problem and did not use the 3D-object. But very good to know for future projects.

Best,
Chris

Got same same issue, more or less...

Imported an sphere, created five calibration points, when creating the sixth the object disappears. When moving one of the points the object comes back, bit when moving 1pixel the objects moves several centimeters.... not accurate...
Yes, spheres are complex, but I hope it can be done with Madmapper
In the end I need 7 projectors or more...

What's your error rate ?

MadMapper's calibration is VERY accurate, as it is based on openCV lib,
which is the de-facto standard in the industry.
To calibrate a sphere, you need to set up calibration point very accurately.
If the object disappear, it basically means that there's too much a difference between
- your calibration points
- pose estimation
- physical references

Try calibrating a cube first to get used to MM's calibration.
Note that using a short throw projector will cause problems to the calibration as well.

Error Rate is 100px in the screenshot, after adding the last point the object disappears and error rate is 16.472
I don´t get it... I definitely should do something wrong or MM is unable to calibrate a sphere... Tried many variants....

Here´s the used .obj File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbowpwdfc50ew ... h.obj?dl=0

it seems you're just picking random points on the surface of the sphere.
How do you know for sure there's a correspondance between the points you selected in the model
and the real points on your surface ? You don't, because there's no correspondance.
That's why MM cannot calibrate your object.

On a sphere like that there's no visual references, so I doubt you would ever manage to calibrate it.

Do you have a photo of your real object you're trying to map ?

Actually only from the finished one with Watchout. This one has 3.5m diameter and five projectors.... But next time I want to do it with MadMapper, this is why I´m trying to figure out how it´s working....

So it seems that I´ve done something wrong like you say...
As I said: I tried many variants in MM to get it to work.. This one was just an example.
On the real sphere we marked the equator and every 45 degree or more to have an optical reference.

So... placing the sphere in MadMapper, rotate it so it fits nearly the real object and then it goes into calibration mode... Placing the reference points where? on the equator? Didn´t worked for me, object disappears...

So, any advice?