Image Disintegration/Disolve Effects

Brief Description

This project is to create a disintegration effect for an image.

Disintegration effect is one of most common visual effects in graphic design. It will make an image object "disapear" by "disolving" it. In Photoshop or After Effects, it will take a few steps to generate this kind of effect with careful design. In my project, it can be generated automaticly with only one click.

The program will read an input image with pure color background, extract the main object in the image and display a series of images with disintergrated object.
(See examples of input image and output image below.)

The program will use techniques we learned in course 6040, like green screening, composition, warping, etc.

Steps:

1) Extract main object in a pure color background image using green screening techniques.

2) Generate the background image by filling with background color.

3) Disintegrate the object.

4) Move, scale, rotate, or do some perspective warping with the "pieces" to make the disintegrated image.

5) Compose the disintegrated image with the background image.