What is Digital Morphing and Its Techniques

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What is Digital Morphing and Its Techniques
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Index

• What is Morphing?
• Digital Morphing
• Techniques of Digital Morphing

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What is Morphing?

• Morphing is a special effect in animations that
  change one image into another form using a
  seamless transition.
• It is used to portray one person turning into
  another through technological means or as part of
  a fantasy.
• Traditionally such a depiction would be achieved
  through cross-fading techniques in a movie.

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Digital Morphing

• In the early 1990s computer techniques often
  produced more convincing results began to be used
  widely.
• These involved warping one image at the same time
  that it faded into another by marking
  corresponding points and vectors on "before" and
  "after" images used in the morph.

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• Example One would morph one face into another by
  key points marking on the first face, such as a
  shape of nose or location of an eye, and mark
  where these same points existed on the second
  face.
• The computer warps the first face to have the
  shape of the second face at the same time that it
  faded the two faces.

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Techniques of Digital Morphing

• Digital Morphing programs can automatically morph
  image that corresponds closely enough with
  instruction from the user.
• Digital Morphing technique used to create the
  convincing slow-motion effects where none existed
  in real film or video footage by morphing between
  every frame using optical flow technology.

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• Digital Morphing also appeared as a transition
  technique between one scene and another in
  television shows, even if two images contents are
  completely unrelated.
• In this case, the algorithm attempts to find
  corresponding points between the images and
  distort one into another as they crossfade.

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• Digital Morphing is used heavily today whereas
  the effect was initially a creation, morphing
  special effects are most often designed to be
  seamless and invisible to eye.

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• Use for morphing effects is modern digital font
  design. Using morphing technology a designer can
  create an intermediate between two styles.
• Example generating a semibold font by
  compromising between a bold and regular style, or
  extend a trend to create an ultra-bold or
  ultra-light.
• Font design studios commonly use the technique.

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