Taper correction added to rotary set up? Possible?

LightBurn Software Questions
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This might be a good addition to Lightburn. In the rotary set-up menu would it be possible to have a taper setting where you give the circumference of a tumbler or any other tapered object at the top of the job and at the bottom of the job and have the software do the math to warp the image so it appears as it looks on the screen (or at lease closer to it). I’m not very mathletic, but there’s got to be maths that can figure this out.

My apologies, after writing this I saw it was brought up many times in the voting section under different wordings of the same request. I see when all votes are added up there are at least 65 votes. Is there any effort or progress toward this “feature”?

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I recently got a rotary and it only allows for perfect cylinders. I think a software workaround could prevent having to physically hold it level to the taper and still render accurate images

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Therefore the software is always adjusting focus on the fly? If this is what you mean I’m not sure how well it would work.

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No, I mean have the software warp the image based on the taper so the image appears with its proper proportions.

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No problems, but I’m still a bit confused. What did you mean by “prevent having to physically hold it level to the taper”?

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I believe this is a Bulge and Skew question on the line-art side. You’re right though, focal height (or range) is a solid reason that this can’t be solved directly with a 2D graphical transform.

Three lines of text on a bulbous glass (like a snifter) could be done on different layers and Z-axis offsets could be applied to each layer to address the focal distance or range.

Between that and text modified outside LightBurn it may be quite possible.

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