[GOODIE] A bit of picture playing for fun

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sat May 19 10:52:14 UTC 2001



Mike Rutenberg wrote:
> 
> Beyond Photography -- The Digital Darkroom by Gerard J. Holzmann, was
> published by Prentice Hall in 1988.  It is a great little book and is
> described briefly at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/gerard/popi.html
> 
> I have dashed together a minimal framework for doing manipulation of an
> image that is somewhat similar to what is done in POPI.  The attached
> file-in works and is quite fun to play around with, though the user
> interface needs a bit of work and it could be a bit faster.
> 
> Instructions:
> (1) File it in.
> (2) From the New Morph... menu, under Demo... create a POPIMorph
> (3) Open a nice JPEG or GIF file
> (4) Drop the picture onto the POPIMorph
> (5) Change the return value of POPIMorph>>newAt: to change the
> transformation function.  This is the place that controls what the
> result looks like.
> 
> Not done, but great additions would be to have a place to type an
> expression in POPIMorph as well as the ability to use more than one
> source image.  Better yet would be to use scripting tiles to build the
> transformation expressions.   Also fun would be to connect it with
> the video capture work that various people are doing.
> 
> Have fun.  Any feedback gratefully received.
This is really fun to play with:-) Thanks.

Karl





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