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#Morphing

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#50697From: Ron WodaskiJul 22, 1993 6:09 PM
I've used Photomorph a lot, and like the implementation. It is a 2D morph package that runs under Windows. I've got a chapter describing it in my forthcoming (August) book, "Virtual Reality Madness." Ron
#50750From: John EllisJul 23, 1993 2:04 AM
Ron – I've caught little blrubs about you books, and am intrested to know more about them. Have you used WinImages Morph? Its pretty good and they're continually revising it. Blackbelt has had quite a few years experience with Morphing on the Amiga and like alot of software companies these days has ported theirs to the windows environment. -JE
#50815From: Ron WodaskiJul 23, 1993 11:18 AM
I received an evaulation copy of WinImage for my book on Virtual Reality, along with a demo program. However, the demo program kept running into GPFs, and, with the deadline approaching, I never had a chance to look into the reasons. It could, of course, have been problems with my video driver andhave nothing to do with Black Belt's product. I will take a closer look as I am writing a new edition of Multimedia Madness later this year. I was quite pleased with Photomorph, and we'll have a demo version on the CD-ROM that comes with the Virtual Reality Madness book. I was very pleased with both the interface and the morphing algorithms of Photomorph. I also like that it outputs .avi files, as that is the most common format I work in. I have heard that WinImages is very strong in handling a wide variety of formats. I really do need to spend some time gettig familiar with it. <g> Ron
#50822From: John EllisJul 23, 1993 11:34 AM
Ron – I particularly like the fact that it supports Alpha Channel and TGA output, which is my primary format, and even for those without a Targa who want to create FLI files this is handy, because you can morph images and then composite them over a background with no tearing. -JE P.S. I'm interested in checking out your books. Interesting that you are including a CD Rom with your current book VRM. Are you going to be at Siggraph? PSS Do you know of a program which converts AVI to FLI and visa versa?