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Asked 1 month ago by StarRover392

Why doesn't dragging the bottom-right point affect my SwiftUI perspective transform?

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I'm implementing a perspective transform effect in SwiftUI where I can drag four corner points to distort an image. The red (top-left), blue (top-right), and green (bottom-left) points work fine, but dragging the yellow (bottom-right) point has no effect on the distortion.

Below is my complete implementation:

SWIFT
import SwiftUI struct DraggableView: View { @State private var topLeft = CGPoint(x: 50, y: 50) @State private var topRight = CGPoint(x: 150, y: 50) @State private var bottomLeft = CGPoint(x: 50, y: 150) @State private var bottomRight = CGPoint(x: 150, y: 150) var body: some View { ZStack { Image("overlay") .resizable() .frame(width: 400, height: 400) Image("screenshot") .resizable() .frame(width: 400, height: 400) .modifier(PerspectiveModifier( topLeft: topLeft, topRight: topRight, bottomLeft: bottomLeft, bottomRight: bottomRight )) CornerPointsView( topLeft: $topLeft, topRight: $topRight, bottomLeft: $bottomLeft, bottomRight: $bottomRight ) } .frame(width: 400, height: 400) } } struct CornerPointsView: View { @Binding var topLeft: CGPoint @Binding var topRight: CGPoint @Binding var bottomLeft: CGPoint @Binding var bottomRight: CGPoint var body: some View { ZStack { DraggablePoint(position: $topLeft, color: .red) DraggablePoint(position: $topRight, color: .blue) DraggablePoint(position: $bottomLeft, color: .green) DraggablePoint(position: $bottomRight, color: .yellow) } } } struct DraggablePoint: View { @Binding var position: CGPoint let color: Color var body: some View { Circle() .fill(color) .frame(width: 20, height: 20) .position(position) .gesture( DragGesture() .onChanged { value in position = value.location } ) } } struct PerspectiveModifier: GeometryEffect { var topLeft: CGPoint var topRight: CGPoint var bottomLeft: CGPoint var bottomRight: CGPoint var animatableData: AnimatablePair<CGPoint.AnimatableData, CGPoint.AnimatableData> { get { AnimatablePair(topLeft.animatableData, bottomRight.animatableData) } set { topLeft.animatableData = newValue.first bottomRight.animatableData = newValue.second } } func effectValue(size: CGSize) -> ProjectionTransform { // let rect = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size) let newRect = CGRect(x: topLeft.x, y: topLeft.y, width: topRight.x - topLeft.x, height: bottomLeft.y - topLeft.y) let transform = CGAffineTransform( a: (topRight.x - topLeft.x) / size.width, b: (topRight.y - topLeft.y) / size.height, c: (bottomLeft.x - topLeft.x) / size.width, d: (bottomLeft.y - topLeft.y) / size.height, tx: topLeft.x, ty: topLeft.y ) return ProjectionTransform(transform) } } #Preview { DraggableView() }

Expected behavior:

  • Dragging the bottom-right yellow point should distort the image's perspective just like the other three points.

Actual behavior:

  • Moving the yellow point (bottom-right) has no effect on the image transformation
  • The other three points (red, blue, and green) work as expected

I noticed that in the PerspectiveModifier's effectValue function, I'm only using topLeft, topRight, and bottomLeft when computing the transform. Could this be why the bottom-right point isn't affecting the transform? What changes do I need to make so that the bottom-right point becomes functional in the perspective transform?

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Answer by StackOverflowTychoAI Agent 1 month ago

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The issue is that your transform is only taking three of the four corner points into account. You’re using a CGAffineTransform that essentially only maps the top‐left, top‐right, and bottom‐left points—leaving the bottom‐right point “unused.” In other words, your transformation is affine rather than a true perspective (projective) transform.

What’s Missing

  1. Using All Four Points:
    A proper perspective (homography) transform uses all four source and destination points. Since your goal is to map the original image’s four corners to arbitrary positions set by the user, you need to compute a full projective mapping—not just an affine transform defined by three points.

  2. Animating All Points:
    Your animatableData only considers topLeft and bottomRight. That means even when you're updating the other two (topRight & bottomLeft) visually, they aren’t really part of the transformation interpolation. You should “expose” all four points in the animation interface if you want smooth transitions.

How to Fix It

There are two main approaches:

1. Compute a Full Perspective (Homography) Transformation

You’ll need to calculate a 3×3 homography matrix that maps the image’s four original corners to your four dragged points. This isn’t supported directly by CGAffineTransform, so you might write your own implementation or use a Core Image filter:

  • Using Core Image:
    You can use the CIPerspectiveTransform filter for this purpose. That filter takes in four corners (inputTopLeft, inputTopRight, inputBottomLeft, inputBottomRight) and computes the transformation.

    For example:

    SWIFT
    import CoreImage import CoreImage.CIFilterBuiltins func perspectiveTransformImage(_ image: CIImage, topLeft: CGPoint, topRight: CGPoint, bottomLeft: CGPoint, bottomRight: CGPoint) -> CIImage? { let filter = CIFilter.perspectiveTransform() filter.inputImage = image filter.topLeft = CIVector(cgPoint: topLeft) filter.topRight = CIVector(cgPoint: topRight) filter.bottomLeft = CIVector(cgPoint: bottomLeft) filter.bottomRight = CIVector(cgPoint: bottomRight) return filter.outputImage }
  • Custom Homography Calculation:
    If you want more control (or to integrate directly with SwiftUI’s GeometryEffect), you’ll need to compute a 3×3 projective matrix that maps the source rectangle to your quadrilateral. There are formulas available online that involve solving for the matrix coefficients given four point correspondences.

2. Update the AnimatableData (If Staying in SwiftUI’s Modifier)

If you decide to roll your own transformation within a GeometryEffect, you have to:

  • Include all Four Points:
    Change your animatableData to include representations of all four points. One option is to use a tuple like AnimatablePair<AnimatablePair<CGPoint.AnimatableData, CGPoint.AnimatableData>, AnimatablePair<CGPoint.AnimatableData, CGPoint.AnimatableData>> to hold all four points.

  • Compute a Proper Matrix:
    Replace your CGAffineTransform with a computation that takes into account all four destination points. Since CGAffineTransform cannot represent perspective transforms, you’d need to compute the 3×3 matrix and then wrap it in a ProjectionTransform (often using a custom initializer).

Summary

Your image isn’t distorting correctly with the yellow point because that point isn’t being used in your transform calculation. To fix this:

  • Use a full perspective transformation that relies on all four corner points.
  • Update your animation data to include all points so that dragging any of them smoothly updates the transformation.

This will give you the desired effect when dragging all four points, including the yellow bottom‐right one.

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