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#More morphing

    02-Jun-92 12:09:22
Sb: #More morphing
Fm: James LaPlante 70363,216
To: Yost Group 76702,413
More about my morphing dilema. I'm creating a countdown. Each number begins as an extruded full screen rectangle which over 30 frames morphs into the number 8, for example. As the finished *8 moves off screen th what had been the background rectangle morphs into the number 7, etc… Now what I wanted was the effect of having the standard movie countdown [ie;circle with sweeping hand] projected onto these objectes. I had thought that I could save the intermediate steps of the morph and back in editor apply the same mapping coordinates to all of them, then in the keyframer the animation would just be moving/replacing one object with the next every frame. I hope this clarifies the problem. It seems like the same or similar approach that generates ripples could be applied here. An Process in which you can specify a start shape and end shape and then let the process generate the in betweens over a given number of steps. Andy