Augmented Reality in public spaces. Basic Techniques for video mapping

This book, the first in a series, dedicated to New Technologies for the Arts, is aimed at all digital arts students (PC and MAC users) who want to try video mapping for the first time. Thanks to a course of reading that alternates theoretic concepts and practical exercises – explaining from how to take a photograph to how to request permission, from the layer masks to 2D and 3D animation, up to the final projection and warping – the reader will be able to project a video mapping event.

Topics discussed

• The history of video mapping
• The choice of video projector
• Layer masks in Illustrator®
• After Effects® and video mapping
• Cinema 4D®, 3D scenes, Camera Calibration …
• Audio-video editing Resolume Areana®, real time content and warping
• Mapping methods
• Video mapping and bureaucracy