Starting shape is a Circle.
I'd like to deform it using a cage like you would do in Photoshop.

This is done in Photoshop:



When I try to use the point deform node in Hou, the result looks bad


Problems:
1) the deformed shape is not smooth
2) not all 4 sides of the cage touch the deformed ellipse
3) the deformed shape doesn't seem to lay on the plane of the cage
4) the deformed shape trespasses the cage

Any help is super welcome!
Thanks

Attached you'll find the .hip file if you want to have a look.

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Q_fail_point_deform.hiplc (110.8 KB)

Hi
The bound node makes a box actually so that will confuse the hell out of the point deformer. Ive set up a grid instead that gets the bounds from the circle. As for the deformation you might be better off with higher radius on the deformer and no resampling. But i cant seem to get the circle to stay inside the cage so i switched to the lattice deformer instead. Not perfect but at least its inside

-b

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Hey Bonsak, I've encountered a weird case using your setup and I don't quite understand the reason…

Left image is the original shape with its cage.
Right image is the interpolated result. The triangle is being deformed while the shape of the cage itself has not even changed.



I might have broken your setup at some point without noticing?

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Q_pointDef_newCase.hiplc (136.3 KB)