ABSTRACT
Most media servers on the market today have some level of image distortion or surface warping controls, whether it is simply keystone correction or more advanced like spherical mapping. Servers such as Hippotizer and Axon are frequently used in projects where an image needs to be manipulated and distorted so that it will appear flat on a curved or 3D surface. The spherical mapping features of the Axon, for instance, allow the rectangular 4:3 output from the media server to be warped across a section of a curved or irregular surface using alignment controls including latitude, longitude, vertical and horizontal center, and bend. In the Hypnotizer's ScreenWarp Manager warps are created according to the size and/or shape of the 3D surface. 3D mapping differs from 3D warping in that the server actually wraps an image onto the surface of a 3D object based on its UV map.
