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!MorphDes and !MorphRun are Copyright © 1994 Jason Howat.
Copyright notice
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This program is FreeWare. This means that I retain the copyright. You may
freely copy and distribute it, provided that it is complete with all
original files, and that you do not sell it. PD libraries may charge a
nominal fee for the cost of duplication, postage etc. When you use the
program, you do so entirely at your own risk.
Sorry... there's not much documentation (yet).
!MorphDes and !MorphRun form a package that performs 2D morphing. It uses
an algorithm presented by Thaddeus Beier and Shawn Neely at SIGGRAPH '92.
See there paper in the July 1992 issue of 'Computer Graphics' for more
information.
These programs were written as part of my degree at the University of
Waikato. If you like them, let me know and I may develop them further.
I have several ideas for enhancing them, but I would rather work on things
that people actually want.
Jason Howat
e-mail: jhowat@cs.waikato.ac.nz (should be valid until end '94)
or C/o pdenize@cs.waikato.ac.nz (my supervisor)
snail-mail: Jason Howat
4514 SH3/Te Awamutu Road
RD3
Ohaupo
NEW ZEALAND
Things to note:
- !MorphRun produces format 2 Acorn Replay files (uncompressed
15-bit RGB).
- It doesn't restrict the size of input images. Some Replay formats
require that the frame is a certain multiple of pixels wide.
- !MorphRun uses a lot of floating point math. So, unless you have a
FPA, you will probably want to use small images.
- The images look best in a 256 colour mode.
How to use it:
1. Take two Clear files that are the same size.
2. Run !MorphDes and drag the images to its icon.
3. Use select-drags to add lines to the images. Use adjust drags in the
boxes to adjust lines. Lines should be placed so that corresponding
features of the two images are marked by a line pair.
4. Set the number of frames from the image window menu.
5. Save the sequence description using the save box off the image window
menu.
6. Run !MorphRun and drag the sequence description to its icon.
7. Save the Acorn Replay file.
8. Wait a few hours! Click on the !MorphRun icon to get a progress
report. Moving the pointer into this window will change it to an
hourglass, giving the percentage of the current frame that has been
completed.
!MorphDes can also load a sequence description created in a previous
session.