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Subject: Re: Morphing animation?
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On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Christophe Lize wrote:

>
> This is a test for writing in this conference and one question to all.
>
>
> Is it possible under LW to morph an object to an other and is it easy to
> create this type of animation?
>
>

3D morphing in LW entails modeling two (or more objects) which consist of
exactly the same number of points.  In addition, point order is an
important consideration in order to obtain the desired results.  In other
words, when you save an object, the points are saved in a specified
order, and when you engage the morph option, point one of the original
object is moved into the point one position of the morph target, point
two is moved into the point two postion of the target and so on...

For this reason, 3D morphing is generally used for changing the position
of the original objects elements.  For example, you could create a waving
flag by repositioning a gridded planes corners several times (and saving
each version as a seperate morph target).  A cycling morph sequence can
be used to create repetious actions, such as the breathing of a 3D
character or creature..

If it is the "Michael Jackson" style morph that you are after, this is
done in 2D morping packages such as Morph Plus and Imagemaster (on the
Amiga) or Elastic Reality on the PC...

Hope this answers your question ;)


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