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morphing
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Transforming one image into another; for example, a car into a tiger. The term comes from metamorphosis. Morphing programs work by marking prominent points, such as tips and corners, of the before and after images. The points are used to mathematically compute the movements from one object to the other. See tweening.

Plotting the Points
The prominent points of both the before and after images are marked in Gryphon's Morph software, which computes all the in-between stages. (Image courtesy of Gryphon Software Corporation.)










A Morphing Sequence
This morphing was performed by Andover's VideoCraft program. The start, end and three in between stages were captured for this example. (Images courtesy of Andover Advanced Technologies.)

(graphics)morphing - The animated transformation of one image into another by gradually distorting the first image so as to move certain chosen points to the position of corresponding points in the second image.

Compare tweening.
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