GVA1994

I have a concept for a piece in my mind but am feeling a bit lost trying to think of a way to implement it. I'd like to wrap a texture containing 10-20 videos around a sphere. Not in a "jit.glue rectangular mosaic" kind of way, but more irregular shapes, ideally also giving me control to deform the shapes in real-time.

How would I go about merging together the videos into one texture in this way?

I have a concept for a piece in my mind but am feeling a bit lost trying to think of a way to implement it. I'd like to wrap a texture containing 10-20 videos around a sphere. Not in a "jit.glue rectangular mosaic" kind of way, but more irregular shapes, ideally also giving me control to deform the shapes in real-time. 

How would I go about merging together the videos into one texture in this way? 

Hey all,
I have a concept for a piece in my mind but am feeling a bit lost trying to think of a way to implement it. I'd like to wrap a text

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I believe jit.gl.text is limited to unicode values less than 65535. we can take a look at removing this limitation, but in the meantime I think you are better off using jit.mgraphics for drawing, and then sending that matrix off to jit.gl.videoplane for display. I've got a basic example of this pasted below. you can use the font_extents values to figure out your positioning (or just trial and error).

take a look at jit.gl.nurbs for distortion. you can use multiple nurbs and capture them to a texture with jit.gl.node @capture 1 for wrapping around your sphere.

jit.gl.nurbs takes a matrix input that describes the shape. you may have better luck first compositing your movie textures onto a grid, and then sending that grid to jit.gl.nurbs for warping.

coincidently enough, we are currently developing a tool for doing this type of distortion, and will be in the next update.

take a look at jit.gl.nurbs for distortion. you can use multiple nurbs and capture them to a texture with jit.gl.node @capture 1 for wrapping around your sphere. 

Best way to approach this idea?