Painting With Light is a complete video mapping tool that enables artists of any technical ability to paint with static and moving images through any video projector onto 3D physical objects.
Video projectors are designed to project a single video image onto a screen or wall but now, because we can generate the projected video graphics in real-time with even an entry-level computer (PC or Mac), we can show many video clips at the same time and position them within the screen so they match up with all sorts of 3d physical objects.
The image above shows an example live performance that was made using a single video projector, cardboard boxes, and Painting With Light.
This technique (also called Projection Mapping) has been adopted by digital artists around the world. Painting With Light is an easy to use video mapping tool that lets anyone explore this exciting digital medium.
- Written from scratch in low-level C++ using OpenGL graphics
- Synchronised audio and video playback
- Built in sequencer to control playback timing of your media*
- Supports over 200 video and audio file formats, 300 video and audio codecs via FFMPEG
- Freehand video painting tools not found in any other video mapping software
- Polygons, perspective correcting quads, bezier polygons, deformable meshes and more!
- Unlimited layers with opacity control, powerful masking tools, and 24 dramatic blending modes
- Combine it with your existing tools via Syphon (OSX), Spout (Windows), MIDI, and Open Sound Control (OSC).
- Used for installations and performances around the world
No, although Painting With Light is designed to be used for video mapping with a video projector, on its own it is still a unique video painting software with which you can create images and videos that can be shared on-line and beyond.
You won’t need a powerful computer or a video projector to try it out and you can draw with your mouse or laptop track pad.
https://github.com/bigfug/PaintingWithLight/releases
Painting With Light used to be commercial software that required a paid licence. Now it is free.