MORPHING

Process of special effects video and/or computer animation that distorts images in motion. What started out in the movies as perverse distortions and unreal "morphed" images has gained respectability in science as a means of visualizing data and dynamic changes in data. Originally, morphing was only something professionals could do on very expensive workstations. Now morphing software and hardware requirements are much more modest. See Burger (1994b) for an easy-to-read description of the morphing process. (See also Animation )