Talk:Morphing
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Wasn't this process originally called "morfing" with an 'f'?
[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)
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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.
