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- From: geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas)
- Subject: Re: PIXAR
- Message-ID: <C18Anq.JBM@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- References: <1993Jan6.185040.7327@erenj.com> <1jjgeeINN1co@irz401.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:59:50 GMT
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- NASA have been using morphing techniques in a limited way since the
- year dot! When they send their satellites up for remote sensing, those
- equipped with cameras needed to have the camera images 'registered',
- so that the images shown on screen were indeed as they appeared and
- not geometrically distorted. Consequently, as the image came in from
- the camera, it was transformed in a way similar to current morphing
- techniques. The NASA people weren't interested in the in-between
- frames that make morphing interesting. They just wanted the final
- image.
-
- So, in my opinion, the NASA image processing gurus (or whoever it
- was that came up with the technique) should be credited with the
- 1st application of morphing.
-
- Just my 2 pence.
-