# psychopy.visual.windowwarp - warping to spherical, cylindrical, or other projections¶

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## Warper¶

class psychopy.visual.windowwarp.Warper(win, warp=None, warpfile=None, warpGridsize=300, eyepoint=(0.5, 0.5), flipHorizontal=False, flipVertical=False)[source]

Class to perform warps.

Supports spherical, cylindrical, warpfile, or None (disabled) warps

Warping is a final operation which can be optionally performed on each frame just before transmission to the display. It is useful for perspective correction when the eye to monitor distance is small (say, under 50 cm), or when projecting to domes or other non-planar surfaces.

These attributes define the projection and can be altered dynamically using the changeProjection() method.

Parameters

win : Handle to the window.

warp‘spherical’, ‘cylindrical, ‘warpfile’ or None

This table gives the main properties of each projection

Warp

eyepoint modifies warp

verticals parallel

horizontals parallel

perspective correct

spherical

y

n

n

y

cylindrical

y

y

n

n

warpfile

n

?

?

?

None

n

y

y

n

warpfileNone or filename containing Blender and Paul Bourke

compatible warp definition. (see http://paulbourke.net/dome/warpingfisheye/)

warpGridsize300

Defines the resolution of the warp in both X and Y when not using a warpfile. Typical values would be 64-300 trading off tolerance for jaggies for speed.

eyepoint[0.5, 0.5] center of the screen

Position of the eye in X and Y as a fraction of the normalized screen width and height. [0,0] is the bottom left of the screen. [1,1] is the top right of the screen.

flipHorizontal: True or False

Flip the entire output horizontally. Useful for back projection scenarious.

flipVertical: True or False

Flip the entire output vertically. useful if projector is flipped upside down.

Notes
1. The eye distance from the screen is initialized from the

monitor definition.

2. The eye distance can be altered dynamically by changing

‘warper.dist_cm’ and then calling changeProjection().

Example usage to create a spherical projection:

from psychopy.visual.windowwarp import Warper
win = Window(monitor='testMonitor', screen=1,
fullscr=True, useFBO = True)
warper = Warper(win,
warp='spherical',
warpfile = "",
warpGridsize = 128,
eyepoint = [0.5, 0.5],
flipHorizontal = False,
flipVertical = False)

changeProjection(warp, warpfile=None, eyepoint=(0.5, 0.5), flipHorizontal=False, flipVertical=False)[source]

Allows changing the warp method on the fly. Uses the same parameter definitions as constructor.