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Article: Elastic Reality 1.0. (ASDG's QuickTime morphing and warping software package) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Pros: Based on a brilliant, simple concept; can create professional-caliber results. Cons: Difficult to learn; inadequate tech support; sloppy manual; requires 12MB of free RAM. Company: ASDG (608/273-6585). List Price: $349.
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Morphing, of course, is the spectacular special effect in which one image (usually a person) visibly melts into another (usually a different person or, say, an animal). Fans of Michael Jackson videos, Terminator 2, or e"Quantum Leape" know what I'm talking about. The first Mac program that could create QuickTime-movie morphs was Gryphon Software's Morph; in it, you click to place dots on the screen. These dots specify which ...