xmorph - image warping and dissolving (morphing) for X window systemmorph - command line interface image morphing program
morph [-start srcimgfile [-finish destimgfile]] [-src srcmeshfile [-dst dstmeshfile ]] [-out outimgfile ] [-mt morphtween ] [-dt dissolvetween ] [-help]
morph is a morphing program with no graphical user interface. morph performs image warping and dissolving but provides no means to create or modify meshes. The intent is to use morph after meshes have already been generated with xmorph. Since morph has no GUI, it can be run as a background job and can be distributed over many machines or processes. This parallelization of the task can significanly speed up the image processing. morph can run on machines which have no display whatsoever, and is therefore very portable.
Both xmorph and morph use a library called libmorph which can be used separately in the creation of other morphing programs.
If imgfile names are provided on the command line, then those images are loaded in. Otherwise, xmorph generates images to be used in lieu of images provided by the user. Images may be loaded from menus within xmorph.
xmorph has built-in help pages that answer questions about the details of its use. Run xmorph and look at the online help for more information.
Here is a brief explanation of how to make a movie from the images generated by xmorph:
xmorph uses the TrueVision Targa (TGA) image file format. You can use PBMplus, netpbm, ImageMagick or some other program to convert Targa to other still image formats. (This will be necessary if, for example, you use the Berkeley MPEG encoder or want to make an animated GIF.) See, e.g., ftp://ikaros.fysik4.kth.se/pub/netpbm/.
Use another program, such as Berkeley's mpeg_encode, or SGI's dmconvert, or whirlgif to turn the sequence of images that xmorph created into a single animation. See, e.g., ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/encode/.
Use another program, such as mpeg_play, xanim or movieplayer, to view the animation. See, e.g., ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg/play/.
There are plenty of other programs available for viewing movies.
Help came from many places, including Andy Thaller, Warwick Allison, and Mike Hoefelein.
The original morphing algorithm is presented in ``A Two-Pass Mesh Warping Algorithm for Object Transformation and Image Interpolation'', ILM Technical Memo #1030, Computer Graphics Department, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1990.
Mesh-based digital image warping is discussed in detail in Digital Image Warping by George Wolberg.
Xmorph is a GNU program.
Some versions of the program "xv" can not read xmorph's TGA image files. This is a bug in "xv", not in xmorph.
Use image conversion programs (such as those listed in the SEE ALSO section) to convert to and from TGA image files for use with xmorph and morph .
Report bugs to gourlay@colorado-research.com or mennucc1@debian.org
http://colorado-research.com/~gourlay/
http://colorado-research.com/~gourlay/software/
http://colorado-research.com/~gourlay/software/Graphics/
http://colorado-research.com/~gourlay/software/Graphics/Xmorph/
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