Mugs that look like mugs
April 17th, 2007
When we put DoodlePad together, Ashish used to call our mug preview ‘chaude kaan waala aadmi‘ (a guy with broad ears). And yes, that’s precisely how it looked. So the challenge was, make Mugs in DoodlePad look like mugs.
So, with the latest release, DoodlePad now features a three-side view of your design put on mugs. Here’s what we’re talking about,
A brief about how it’s done. The problem at hand here is, cylindrical transform for a flat image or wrapping an image around a cylinder shape (the mug in our case). Going through a lot of existing 3D texturing libraries for Flash, we found they were a little too heavy for what we needed. So we decided to do it on our own. This was accomplished by splitting the image into a large number of vertical strips and placing them at coordinates calculated using simple coordinate geometry. The larger the number of strips, the better is the preview but slower is the performance. Larger number of strips also makes the job simpler as we don’t have to worry about skewing the strips, since the width and hence the skew gets negligible.
That’s it for the jargon. Hope it helps somebody.
For all our dear users and users-to-be, Happy Designing :)
Entry Filed under: Tech, Doodlepad, Feature Update
12 Comments Add your own
1. Aayan | May 11th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
The mugs do look like mugs - however - by the time they reached my place the handle was broken ! - the packing was done in a soft cardboard - instead of a solid box -knowing how “carefully” our freight carriers transport goods.!
Penny wise and pound foolish!
needs to be corrected else - you will lose credibility.!
2. Ashish | May 12th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Oops! Sorry about the brokem mug Aayan. I believe our support has gotten in touch with you over email about this.
We’re trying to get the packaging right.. hopefully we’ll be able to get styrofoam casts ready sometime soon. That’ll reduce chances of breakage. You could have emailed us for a quicker response :)
3. Suneel | July 29th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Hi,
I have odered a mug from itasveer on 13th july and somehow the payment did not complete successfully. But money is debited from my account and no information about that money from iTASVEER. I have already sent a mail to support@itasveer.com and contact@itasveer.com but there is no response from them,
Could any one please let me know how can i escalate this issue with itasveer.
Thanks in advance.
Suneel
4. Animesh | July 30th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Hi Suneel,
You’ve only brought this to our notice on July 29th (We didn’t know about this transaction till now because of an error on the gateway). And your email was also sent on the same day.. to which we did respond. I’ve just written to you again, please check your mail for the resolution.
5. Sidharth | August 6th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Hi,
I referred 10 friends under the “Spread the Word” link.
I can see that I have won a mug (under “My Referrals” page in Account section). But, how to claim it? When I try to order a Mug, it still shows the normal price applicable.
6. Ashish | August 6th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Hi Sidharth, Check your email (sent to you on the day your referrals were completed) - it will have the details on how to credit the mug to your account. If you still have issues just shoot an email to contact@itasveer.com. Happy Shopping ! :)
Note: You have a hotmail account, so it is possible that our mail has been delivered to your junk folder (We’ve observed that with hotmail accounts). So please write to us at our contact email as replies do not go to the junk folder!
7. Sidhart | August 7th, 2007 at 12:10 am
I have checked the Junk folder as well, but no success.
8. Ashish | August 7th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Hi Sidharth,
Just send us an email at contact@itasveer.com from the email address you used to make your itasveer account (The account from which you made the referrals).
9. Parveen | August 26th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
This msg is especially for Animesh. He responded to my mails prompty. My Rakhi Gift got delivered on time and the goods were in perfect condition.
You people are *Star…..
Thanks a lot !!!
Cheers,
Parveen
10. Animesh | August 28th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Hi Parveen
Thanks for the kind words, and happy to be of service :)
11. Sanjay Joshi | September 28th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hi,
I ordered for photo print and it is showing the Consignment details. But when I clicked to Track button, it redirect to DTDC website and there it is saying ” Additional Details… M29880256
No additional data available for your request. Please contact Customer Care Department citing your consignment number ”
I am not able to track my order details. Please do the needful.
My Itasveer order id : 7055TI18149
DTDC Consignment # M29880256
12. Nishant | September 30th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Hey Sanjay,
I just looked up your tracking id and the status is delivered. Please feel free to write to us on the support email address if there’s anything we can help you with in this regard.
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