Week - 8 - Morphing

Aim :

1) Practice all the Morphing techniques that were shown in the video for Model-1.

2) Perform morphing for the Model-2 and Increase the Height of the Dog houses and Ribs. (Refer Red annotations in the below image to understand what are Dog houses and Ribs)

3)Write a report on Morphing of both models and Discuss applications of morphing in various industries.

Solution :

Model 1 :

We have the following part :

After using topo we get :

Now we will do the morphing of the following :

We have created otho box around :

A box with 6 control points get created as shown :

We have created the following morph by extending it in height :

Now we will work on the following subpart :

Now we will morph the following region :

Now we have created the morph box as shown :

After morphing we get the following :

Now we have create the morph box for the following :

After morphing we get the following :

Part 2 :

We will target the following for morphing :

We will create morphing boxes as shown below :

Now after morphing we get

Report on morphing :

Morphing is a geometric interpolation technique that is often used by the animation industry to transform one form into another seemingly seamlessly. It does this by producing a large number of ‘intermediate’ forms between the two ‘extreme’ or ‘parent’ forms. It has already been shown that morphing technique can be a powerful tool for form design and as such can be a useful addition to the armoury of product designers. Morphing procedure itself is simple and consists of straightforward linear interpolation. However, establishing the correspondence between vertices of the parent models is one of the most difficult and important tasks during a morphing process. This paper discusses the mesh-merging method employed for this process as against the already established mesh-regularising method. It has been found that the merging method minimises the need for manual manipulation, allowing automation to a large extent.

It is used in the following :

1. It is used in medical application

2. It is used on class a surfacing

3. It is used in cae

4. It is used for weight reduction