Well, I'm working on a Wintel machine, but I have access to both a Linux
machine and a Unix machine.  I know C++ (and more, but it seems the most
useful) and I have a book with the morphing code in it, so reading and
displaying an image file as well as the control lines would be most of
the work, then passing it through the algorithm would be merely
implementing the code I've got.  I could make this a simple app or a
complex app depending on how useful it is.

Steve


Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> What platform are you using? What programming languages do you know?
> 
> I haven't had the time to look into it too closely, but I get the
> distinct impression that the GIMP would be an excellent tool for
> generating height fields, especially if you wanted to be able to script
> changes to them.  It a Unix application, though, and I believe the
> built-in scripting support is built around Scheme, which is not the
> first language most people learn. Still, I should think it would be
> easier to learn Scheme than to build a new app from scratch.
> 
> Ignore the bit in the Halloween documents about the GIMP being not much
> more than Paint.  It doesn't look like much at first glance, but there's
> a great deal beneath the surface.
> 
> Stephen Lavedas wrote:
> >
> > Well, it seems that recently I have enjoyed tackling "challenges" in
> > POVRay more than creating scenes.  I'm sure I'll go back to making
> > images that do more than demonstrate my code at some point, but I
> > recently had a little brainstorm (like 2 minutes ago).  My brainstorm
> > involves the object of the day (for those of you who somehow didn't see
> > Ken's posts that would be the heightfield) and the idea of controlling
> > it more specifically (for instance animating waves?)  I realized that,
> > (and maybe I've just missed when people started using this) morphing is
> > the answer.  Heighfields are built off of 2D images.  Now it is possible
> > to morph a single image with itself, just using control lines.  This is
> > the method I would suggest, the question is, are we content with the
> > current morphing software, or should I spend some time playing with
> > making a util specifically for heightfields?
> >
> > Steve
> 
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