I have some images that I want to \"put inside a bubble\". The bubbles kind of float around the screen with these images trapped inside them.
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For the record, I ended up using GPUImage like @BradLarson suggested but I had to write a custom filter as below. This filter takes an "inside" image and a bubble texture and blends the two while also performing the refraction calculation but not inverting the image coordinates. The effect:
.h
@interface GPUImageBubbleFilter : GPUImageTwoInputFilter
@property (readwrite, nonatomic) CGFloat refractiveIndex;
@property (readwrite, nonatomic) CGFloat radius;
@end
.m
#import "GPUImageBubbleFilter.h"
NSString *const kGPUImageBubbleShaderString = SHADER_STRING
(
varying highp vec2 textureCoordinate;
varying highp vec2 textureCoordinate2;
uniform sampler2D inputImageTexture;
uniform sampler2D inputImageTexture2;
uniform highp vec2 center;
uniform highp float radius;
uniform highp float aspectRatio;
uniform highp float refractiveIndex;
void main()
{
highp vec2 textureCoordinateToUse = vec2(textureCoordinate.x, (textureCoordinate.y * aspectRatio + 0.5 - 0.5 * aspectRatio));
highp float distanceFromCenter = distance(center, textureCoordinateToUse);
lowp float checkForPresenceWithinSphere = step(distanceFromCenter, radius);
distanceFromCenter = distanceFromCenter / radius;
highp float normalizedDepth = radius * sqrt(1.0 - distanceFromCenter * distanceFromCenter);
highp vec3 sphereNormal = normalize(vec3(textureCoordinateToUse - center, normalizedDepth));
highp vec3 refractedVector = refract(vec3(0.0, 0.0, -1.0), sphereNormal, refractiveIndex);
lowp vec4 textureColor = texture2D(inputImageTexture, (refractedVector.xy + 1.0) * 0.5) * checkForPresenceWithinSphere;
lowp vec4 textureColor2 = texture2D(inputImageTexture2, textureCoordinate2) * checkForPresenceWithinSphere;
gl_FragColor = mix(textureColor, textureColor2, textureColor2.a);
}
);
@interface GPUImageBubbleFilter () {
GLint radiusUniform, centerUniform, aspectRatioUniform, refractiveIndexUniform;
}
@property (readwrite, nonatomic) CGFloat aspectRatio;
@end
@implementation GPUImageBubbleFilter
@synthesize radius = _radius, refractiveIndex = _refractiveIndex, aspectRatio = _aspectRatio;
- (id) init {
self = [super initWithFragmentShaderFromString: kGPUImageBubbleShaderString];
if( self ) {
radiusUniform = [filterProgram uniformIndex: @"radius"];
aspectRatioUniform = [filterProgram uniformIndex: @"aspectRatio"];
centerUniform = [filterProgram uniformIndex: @"center"];
refractiveIndexUniform = [filterProgram uniformIndex: @"refractiveIndex"];
self.radius = 0.5;
self.refractiveIndex = 0.5;
self.aspectRatio = 1.0;
GLfloat center[2] = {0.5, 0.5};
[GPUImageOpenGLESContext useImageProcessingContext];
[filterProgram use];
glUniform2fv(centerUniform, 1, center);
[self setBackgroundColorRed: 0 green: 0 blue: 0 alpha: 0];
}
return self;
}
#pragma mark - Accessors
- (void) setRadius:(CGFloat)radius {
_radius = radius;
[GPUImageOpenGLESContext useImageProcessingContext];
[filterProgram use];
glUniform1f(radiusUniform, _radius);
}
- (void) setAspectRatio:(CGFloat)aspectRatio {
_aspectRatio = aspectRatio;
[GPUImageOpenGLESContext useImageProcessingContext];
[filterProgram use];
glUniform1f(aspectRatioUniform, _aspectRatio);
}
- (void)setRefractiveIndex:(CGFloat)newValue;
{
_refractiveIndex = newValue;
[GPUImageOpenGLESContext useImageProcessingContext];
[filterProgram use];
glUniform1f(refractiveIndexUniform, _refractiveIndex);
}
You can do this using the GPUImageSphereRefractionFilter from my open source GPUImage framework:
I describe in detail how this works in this answer to a question about a similar affect on Android. Basically, I use a fragment shader to refract the light that passes through an imaginary sphere, then I use that to do a lookup into a texture containing the source image. The background is blurred using a simple Gaussian blur.
If you want to achieve the exact look of the image you show, you might need to tweak this fragment shader to add some grazing-angle color to the sphere, but this should get you fairly close.
For the fun of it, I decided to try to more closely replicate the glass sphere above. I added grazing angle lighting and a specular lighting reflection on the sphere, as well as not inverting the refracted texture coordinates, leading to this result:
I used the following fragment shader for this newer version:
varying highp vec2 textureCoordinate;
uniform sampler2D inputImageTexture;
uniform highp vec2 center;
uniform highp float radius;
uniform highp float aspectRatio;
uniform highp float refractiveIndex;
// uniform vec3 lightPosition;
const highp vec3 lightPosition = vec3(-0.5, 0.5, 1.0);
const highp vec3 ambientLightPosition = vec3(0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
void main()
{
highp vec2 textureCoordinateToUse = vec2(textureCoordinate.x, (textureCoordinate.y * aspectRatio + 0.5 - 0.5 * aspectRatio));
highp float distanceFromCenter = distance(center, textureCoordinateToUse);
lowp float checkForPresenceWithinSphere = step(distanceFromCenter, radius);
distanceFromCenter = distanceFromCenter / radius;
highp float normalizedDepth = radius * sqrt(1.0 - distanceFromCenter * distanceFromCenter);
highp vec3 sphereNormal = normalize(vec3(textureCoordinateToUse - center, normalizedDepth));
highp vec3 refractedVector = 2.0 * refract(vec3(0.0, 0.0, -1.0), sphereNormal, refractiveIndex);
refractedVector.xy = -refractedVector.xy;
highp vec3 finalSphereColor = texture2D(inputImageTexture, (refractedVector.xy + 1.0) * 0.5).rgb;
// Grazing angle lighting
highp float lightingIntensity = 2.5 * (1.0 - pow(clamp(dot(ambientLightPosition, sphereNormal), 0.0, 1.0), 0.25));
finalSphereColor += lightingIntensity;
// Specular lighting
lightingIntensity = clamp(dot(normalize(lightPosition), sphereNormal), 0.0, 1.0);
lightingIntensity = pow(lightingIntensity, 15.0);
finalSphereColor += vec3(0.8, 0.8, 0.8) * lightingIntensity;
gl_FragColor = vec4(finalSphereColor, 1.0) * checkForPresenceWithinSphere;
}
and this filter can be run using a GPUImageGlassSphereFilter.