Projecting images and videos onto engineered curved surfaces

A projection system, comprising:

• one or more projection devices;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing electronic data corresponding to one or more images to project onto a surface and warp transformation information for transforming a plurality of images for projection onto the surface, wherein the warp transformation information is calculated based on a plurality of parameters describing a three-dimensional shape of the surface, first positional information describing one or more locations of the one or more projection devices in three-dimensional space, and second positional information of an intended viewer relative to the surface, and wherein the warp transformation information is further based on mapping a first image of the plurality of images with a simulated projection of the first image onto a virtual representation of the surface;
• and
• logic configured to:
• parse one or more electronic files containing an engineering diagram, to determine the plurality of parameters describing the three-dimensional shape of the surface
• retrieve the electronic data corresponding to the one or more images to project onto the surface from the non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• apply the warp transformation information to the one or more images to generate one or more transformed images;
• and
• project, using the one or more projection devices, the one or more transformed images onto the surface.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program code that, when executed by operation of one or more computer processors, performs an operation comprising:

• receiving one or more electronic files containing an engineering diagram relating to a surface;
• parsing the one or more electronic files to determine a plurality of parameters describing a three-dimensional shape of the surface;
• receiving first positional information describing a location of a projection device in three-dimensional space;
• calculating warp transformation information for transforming a plurality of images for projection onto the surface, based on the determined plurality of parameters, the first positional information, and second positional information of an intended viewer relative to the surface, and further based on mapping a first image of the plurality of images with a simulated projection of the first image onto a virtual representation of the surface;
• receiving one or more images to project onto the surface;
• applying the warp transformation information to the one or more images to generate one or more transformed images;
• and
• projecting, using the projection device, the one or more transformed images onto the surface.