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Face Morph - Part 1, Morphin' George

Submitted by joelmay on 6 June, 2006 - 4:24pm.

Unlike Grant Skinner's gooify, which is a free-form distortion, the morph presented here is more constrained. It has an editable triangle mesh (which I'm not showing right now).

Part 2 will allow the user to edit the morph.

Part 3 will work with the webcam and images on the user's hard drive.

Part 4 will morph between people.

I think this has some really cool possibilities -- practical applications -- even non-morphing applications.

So come back soon...

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Campbellco (not verified) Says:

Photobooth

6 June, 2006 - 5:25pm

Hey dude have you thought photo booth? Is this as3...cause you could pussh a png off to the server...and make a cool photobooth app :o) Ive been think about it for a while now...would be cool.

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joelmay Says:

What's photobooth? This is

6 June, 2006 - 6:53pm

What's photobooth?

This is an AS2, Flash8 swf. I've got some related ideas that I'm sure will need the speed of AS3, so I'll be porting it soon.

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egoldy (not verified) Says:

good

6 June, 2006 - 5:27pm

nice work! .:)

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Casey (not verified) Says:

Any progress?

20 September, 2007 - 2:59pm

Joel, I saw this when you first posted it last year and check in from time to time to see if you ever progressed with it (specifically interested in Part 2)

I have some ideas I think this could be really useful/cool for, would you mind chatting or sharing source?

Let me know if/when you get a chance, Cheers!

-Casey

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joelmay Says:

I'm a bum

27 November, 2007 - 11:16am

Hey Casey,

Sorry for not replying sooner. I've been buried in work and I've let this site stagnate. Not good, I know. You know how it goes.

As far as sharing this code, it's actually too near and dear to my heart to open it up right now. Although it's been over a year since I posted it, it is the seed of something bigger that I want to pursue. I'm porting it to AS3/flash9/flex now in my spare time.

I want to figure out what the best use of it is before I open it up.

BTW, here's an early version of the next step. It's obviously not finished and needs a lot of work. It's written in AS2 and the code is not efficient, so it's very sluggish. It's also difficult to use.

Try dragging the dots on each image so they are aligned on the correponding location in the other image. Do not drag dots over the triange lines (enable 'Show Trianges'). Go for the mouth corners, chin, nose, eyes, ears, etc. You should be able to see what each dot is intended for in the triangle pattern. But like I said, it's not easy to use right now.

Once the dots are lined up, try dragging the fade and the morph sliders.

Thanks for your interest. Stay tuned. I'll post something interesting on this in the next month or two. Maybe. I hope.

Joel

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prank (not verified) Says:

looks funny, thanks :)

4 January, 2008 - 2:16am

looks funny, thanks :)

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Anonymous (not verified) Says:

I totally agree - can you do

9 February, 2008 - 12:19pm

I totally agree - can you do Hilary too!!

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Charity cds (not verified) Says:

morphing linked to mouse position

20 January, 2008 - 5:40am

Great one of George. I was just wondering if there's any methods of linking the morph to the position of a viewers mouse pointer - so that the morph changes when they point of click at different parts of the screen. Any ideas anyone?

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Baby (not verified) Says:

Kai's POWERGOO

21 February, 2008 - 5:59am

This reminds me of an old program that came out in the 90's... Yes, I remember now, Kai's POWERGOO.
Man, I loved that program. Coupling that with good old animator workshop and we could do stuff for hours. I used to love both programs. I remember trying to animate an entire cartoon on both of those, and getting bored after an hour when I realised how much work it would be... still, it was a seriously brilliant piece of software. I guess it's all flash now, I just don't know if flash is as easy.

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jbj (not verified) Says:

impressive (and funny) work!

18 March, 2008 - 6:04am

impressive (and funny) work!

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portrait painting (not verified) Says:

Face Morph

6 May, 2008 - 10:50pm

I usually do this using my camera phone because it has this same feature. I would then upload the image I got to my computer. With your post, I can now do this online. Cool!!!

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Digital Frame (not verified) Says:

Haha, very funny!

2 July, 2008 - 4:34am

Haha, very funny!

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