Can you use this for your own room?

[malone19]

Can you use Piranesi to take pictures of your own room and a picture of say a rug and insert the rug into your room so it looks real?

[David Cooper]

Hi,

This sounds like a great idea but unfortunately Piranesi can't do this with photos.

It could place the rug on the living room picture, but couldn't twist and scale it to match the perspective of the room because it doesn't have depth information. If you made a model of the room, that would work fine!

I suggest you look at image editing programs, such as Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Paint Shop Pro. These can fix the perspective of an image, using layers to overlay the pictures.

Regards,
David

[Mike Wallace]

Hi Malone19,

You could use Piranesi for this type of application, but there would be a few intermediary steps to take.

If you take a picture of your room from an angle with decent geometric information (i.e. don't shoot a flat wall, shoot toward a corner) you would then be able to model your room in SketchUP fairly quickly using photo-matching.

This would give you a proportionally accurate model of your room.

You would then need to take whichever item you were thinking of adding (be it a lamp, couch, rug, etc.) and use a photo-editing program like Photoshop to convert it to a filetype that could be used as a Piranesi cutout.

The difficulty in using this method for something like a rug, however is that to make it lie flat on the "floor" of your Piranesi image, it would need to be a texture, not a cutout; and you would likely need to bound the area to be textured in SketchUP beore you exported the .epx file.


In short, it's possible, but not exactly easy enough to make it worth your time. I'd use my imagination to see what the rug would look like :)

Regards,
Mike

[Arvan]

The difficulty in using this method for something like a rug, however is that to make it lie flat on the "floor" of your Piranesi image, it would need to be a texture, not a cutout; and you would likely need to bound the area to be textured in SketchUP beore you exported the .epx file.

You can use it as a cutout - make sure the "Vertical" checkbox on the "Tool Options" toolbar is cleared. You may need to tweak it after placing to rotate it.

You can also use it as a texture without pre-defining the area provided you clear the "Repeat" checkboxes on the "Colour and Texture" settings dialog.

Arvan