Heart Shape Smudge Challenge

[martyfm]

Hello! I'm fairly new to ImageMagick and have been presented a problem from a client that I could use some help puzzling out.

The task at hand is to morph / distort user submitted photos into a heart shape. All images will be cropped square and resized to the same pixel dimensions.

Desired results:




In Photoshop this would be referred to as a smudge but I can't seem to find anything similar in ImageMagick.

I tried a few executions of using combinations of explode / bulge and pinch see below diagram - but the images were distorted beyond recognition.



Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[snibgo]

"-distort shepards" can probably do the job. See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... hp#distort

[fmw42]

It would be nice to have your input images to use for testing.

[martyfm]

Good point!

[kopfnick]

Hi,

i am currently researching the same effect and would also like to use imagemagick, was the proposed "-distort shepards" the "right" way?

Thanks,
Gerald

[fmw42]

I tried a number of things (without spending too much time), but ultimately was not very successful.