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- > Hello All...
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- > Does anyone know of a simple means of transforming a 3D object to a flat plane?
- > Basically, I've got a complex object that I wish to "unwrap" into a flat plane
- > so I can morph between the two. The end effect I'm looking for is analogous to
- > a spherical Earth morphing into a mercator map of the Earth.
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- > Thanks!
- > bOB
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- I've done this in Imagine. Very easy there, but then States does help.
- What I did was take a sphere primative and "unbutton" it, bringing its
- points into a single plane, then moving the points to conform to a
- rectangle. Some points will colocate with others. You can't delete any
- points or you won't get a morph. Since LW doesn't support states, it may
- be necessary to save an intermediate object to keep LW on track.
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- Doug Rudd
- rudd@plk.af.mil
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