Talk:Morphing

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Contents 1 Starting to Degrade 2 Name 3 older techniques 4 Examples

[edit] Starting to Degrade

This article is dropping quickly in its accuracy and objectivity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pkivolowitz (talk • contribs) 04:06, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Name

Wasn't this process originally called "morfing" with an 'f'?

I hope not, because it derives from the Greek root morph-, meaning shape or form. --Adoniscik (talk) 18:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

An HTML version of the defining 1992 paper is available online (or see doi:10.1145/142920.134003); it states

We use the term "morphing" to describe the combination of generalized image warping with a cross-dissolve between image elements. The term is derived from "image metamorphosis" …

And why the heck is this reference not in the article? (See also this extensive bibliography of related work.) --KSmrq^T 20:09, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] older techniques

Is it appropriate to refer to the old cross-fading techniques or older transformation animations as "morphing"? I was under the impression that the name "morph" was hung specifically on the technology such as that of TERMINATOR 2 which involved computer interpolation. I realize that a rather HUGE amount of bastardization has set upon the term since then (nowadays people use it as a simple synonym for "change") but was this not the inception of the term in SFX? Which is to say, people did not describe Lon Chaney's werewolf transformation as a "morph" back when it was made, did they? (Or did they?) 24.33.28.52 21:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Lon Chaney's werewolf transformation would have been called a "matched dissolve". Morphing is a matched dissolved coupled with two image warps. I believe Doug Smythe used the term morphing in his original work on Willow and ILM. In my own research, I found the earliest use of morphing like technology was at AT&T Bell Labs for undistorting satellite and telescope images (inverse warp matching the defects in the lens). This work was done in the early 60s but was "warping" only - no dissolves were used which would have made them true morphs.

[edit] Examples

where can I watch an example of this? --Jeevies 19:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

See an example at: http://www.jkcinema.com//cgi-bin/12162002173539Chavstro.swf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.233.39.1 (talk) 22:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)