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- Morphing Demo
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- This is an early demonstration of the
- Morphogenesis/Fieldwarping abilities
- of our new painting+animation package,
- ChromaStudio-24.
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- The animation contains 15 frames of
- 240*260 true-colour morphing, and
- runs in 640*400 high-res.
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- The morphing routine is based on the
- theory behind the 'Field-Warping'
- technique developed by Pacific Data
- Images (PDI) for use in such projects
- as the 'Black or White' music video,
- and was chosen by us in preference to
- the older 'Mesh-Warping' idea (currently
- used in DPaint-4 etc.) since it offers
- complete control over the animation,
- as well as a few extra abilities such
- as controlled distortion. The overall
- effect is much more realistic, but is
- more intensive and requires a certain
- amount of input from the animator. The
- results are well worth the effort, and
- it is by far the professional's choice.
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- Initially written in BASIC and converted
- to 68000 code by Neil Stewart, the
- final version was written by myself
- in 100% 68030 code using 32/64 bit
- fixed-point arithmetic. A DSP version
- is currently under development.
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- ChromaStudio-24 for the Falcon030 will
- be available from Floppyshop around the
- end of 1993.
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- © 1993 Black Scorpion Software (BSS)
- Doug Little/Neil Stewart/Andy Younger.
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