From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Trying to find the perfect morpher
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:37:17 CST
Organization: TelePro Technologies

In a message dated Thu  5 Nov 92 18:07, Kermit@cup.portal.com (kermit Royce
wrote:

 KR> Here's a copy of ASDG's recent comparison chart between the three
 KR> Amiga morphing packages:

Kermit, not only is this comparison chart unfair to your software, it is
unfair to Black Belt Systems, and ultimately to the morphing software
marketplace. I have taken the liberty to correct the comparison chart. In
this comparison chart, I have used the following convention:

N/A = Not Applicable (either unnecessary or uneeded in this product)
N/S = Not Specifically (a feature not specifically named or highlighted in
the
                        software, but within it's capabilities)
W/C = Who Cares? (a feature that is of little or no value)
(x) = Explanatory footnote

                                                        ASDG  GVP   BB
Compatible with Art Department Professional             Yes   W/C   W/C

Graphical User Interface Elements
1.  Single window                                       Yes   No    (1)
2.  Variable onionskin                                  Yes   No    (1)
3.  Fast Asynchronous zoom in/out                       Yes   (2)   Yes
4.  Fast asynchronous scrolling                         Yes   (3)   Yes
5.  Variable brightness and contrast                    Yes   No    (4)
6.  Selectively show or hide specific layers & groups   Yes   N/A   (5)
7.  Full motion preview                                 Yes   No    (6)

(1) Imagemaster has a single screen showing source and target images in
side by side views on the screen. It also has an onionskin screen where the
mix of the source and target images are variable, which can be treated as
the primary editing screen, if one wishes to do so.

(2) Cinemorph can open a screen as large as you want, and the image windows
can be arbitarily sized to any size on that screen. This has the same
effect as a zoom, and is very fast to work with.

(3) Cinemorph can open on a virtual screen. Scrolling is a fast as moving
your mouse.

(4) Imagemaster has complete control over all aspects of an image -
brightness, contrast, gamma curve, dynamic range... you name it.

(5) In onionskin mode Imagemaster can hide all points except those you are
currently working with.

(6) Imagemaster has a filmstrip where you can see a mini-preview of the
actual morph, not just the control points.

Warping Technology                                      ASDG  GVP   BB   
1.  Create and control folds                            Yes   N/A   N/S
2.  Precisely isolate regions                           Yes   Yes   Yes
3.  Guarantee image boundary integrity                  Yes   Yes   Yes
4.  Create travelling mattes while warping              Yes   N/S   N/S
5.  Depth arrange sections of the image                 Yes   W/C   W/C
6.  Unsusceptible to the "bottleneck" problem           Yes   Yes   Yes
7.  Minimized penalty for complicated warps             Yes   Yes   Yes
8.  Time independent variable motion control            Yes   Yes   Yes
9.  Controllable overshoot and undershoot               Yes   ???   ??? (7)
10. Collect logically related correspondence pairs      Yes   W/C   W/C
    into named groups

(7) What is this feature???

Morphing Technology
1.  Control dissolve rate regionally                    Yes   Yes   Yes
2.  Precisely define dissolve regions                   Yes   Yes   Yes
3.  Warp "before" image differently than "after" image  Yes   W/C   W/C


As you can see, ASDG's "chart" is a little off the mark...

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