Photographic souvenir augmentation

A data processing system adapted for photographic souvenir augmentation, the system comprising:

• a host computing platform comprising one or more computers, each with memory and one or processing units including one or more processing cores;
• a digital photographic camera;
• an invisible light grid-stripe projector;
• an invisible light camera;
• and,
• a photographic souvenir generation module comprising computer program instructions enabled while executing in the memory of at least one of the processing units of the host computing platform to perform:
• directing the digital photographic camera to capture a digital image of a guest at a location in an attraction;
• directing the projector to invisibly grid-stripe a portion of the guest based upon a two-dimensional grid;
• directing the invisible light camera to image sense the grid-striped portion of the guest;
• correlating locations of the two-dimensional grid with locations of the striped portion;
• selecting a graphical image;
• transforming the graphical image according to the correlation into a morphed graphical image;
• superimposing the morphed graphical image onto the digital image of the guest;
• and,
• storing the digital image in association with an identifier for the guest.

A computing device comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions stored therein, the instructions being executable by at least one processing core of a processing unit to cause the processing unit to perform a method for photographic souvenir augmentation, the method including:

• capturing a digital image of a guest at a location in an attraction;
• invisibly grid-striping a portion of the guest based upon a two-dimensional grid;
• image sensing the grid-striped portion of the guest;
• correlating locations of the two-dimensional grid with locations of the grid-striped portion;
• selecting a graphical image;
• transforming the graphical image according to the correlation into a morphed graphical image;
• superimposing the morphed graphical image onto the digital image of the guest;
• and,
• storing the digital image in association with an identifier for the guest.