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Morphology 101
Morphology 101 is a multimedia CD-ROM package that is comprised
of a number of useful programs, see figure 1. The minimum
system requirements for this package are a 386SX 16 MHZ
computer, VGA monitor, Windows 3.1 and a CD-ROM drive.
Figure
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Installation is a snap. Place the CD-ROM in your drive,
from the program manager run setup.exe from the CD. The
installation program creates two program groups to run the
various programs packaged on the CD.
The CD-ROM has an interactive manual titled "How the Pro's
Morph". The information in this manual is basic, but it
explores the numerous features of PhotoMorph Lite. The 34
page manual is full of morphing animations, that can be
started with a double mouse click. The animations illustrate
different special effects that can be achieved using Photomorph.
The text surrounding the morphing pictures explain how that
particular effect created.
Photomorph Lite is a stripped down version of PhotoMorph
2, also reviewed in this article. Even so, Photomorph Lite
is a powerful morphing package. The morphing points placed
in the starting picture are points. This is a more intuitive
interface providing a greater control over the resulting
morph animation.
The program creates a standard windows .AVI "animation"
file. The fidelity of the resulting .AVI files is good.
So good in fact that one may use "Video for Windows" (VFW)
"Video Edit" to add a sound track to the .AVI file. This
may appear to the reader as, well should you always be able
to do that. Well yes in theory, but my experience in working
with these files is that some programs, while creating a
viewable .AVI file, have a corrupt sound track. Once a file
has a corrupt sound track it is next to impossible to correct
it easily.
Photomorph Lite, and I keep writing the "Lite" so that
the review on this program isn't confused with its more
powerful relation Photomorph 2, has an animation viewer
incorporated into it making it easy to view the resulting
.AVI files. Another great feature of this program is its
ability to seamlessly add animations together. For instance
suppose you morphed a women into a man, then you wanted
to morph that man into another person, well Photomorph Lite
allows you to do that.
The CD-ROM also has an animation gallery. The gallery has
74 morphing animations you may view. The animations used
in the interactive tutorial "How the Pro's Morph" are pulled
from this gallery.
The Image gallery on the CD-ROM contains approximately
300 still photographs of animals, food, objects, people,
plants, scenery, structures, etc. The photographs may be
used royalty free.
Matinee is a second program included on the CD-ROM. The
program is billed as an .AVI screen saver. The stripped
down program only allows you to play a few video files.
An order form is included for users to purchase the complete
program.
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