Special Effects

Special Effects is a simple application designed using Java that allows you to add special optical effects.

You can add effects like seeing through glass sphere, water droplets or swirl effect with varying degree of radial changes.

You can also create 3-D perspective effects with the images, and it also allows to do basic image editing like changing individual red, green, blue channels in image and adjust brightness and contrast. It works with JPG and PNG file formats and lets you save the image in JPG, PNG and GIF format which makes it easy to use the images for web pages.

The optical effects are created by rotational or polar mapping of the Cartesian coordinates and to get smooth transitions for high resolutions, I have used nearest neighbor interpolation. For creating 3-D perspective effect, a new transform is created to map the real 3-D world in 2-D screen.