home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- !MorphDes and !MorphRun are Copyright © 1994 Jason Howat.
-
-
- Copyright notice
- ________________
-
- 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.
-