I have created an animation using GAP to morph 1 picture into another. It works quite well. I am using Gimp/GAP 2.6.11
I have some questions ... when I pressed the "OK" button on the morph dialog, I was surprised that the process did not consume 100% of my cpu. It seemed to only run at about 25% or sometimes less. My machine has plenty of memory (8GB) and only ~30% was in use at the time. It took several hours to complete. Other than a bit of mild web browsing, the computer was doing nothing else. I would be curious why the the CPU was not more active.
When the morph was done (the original image were both 1500x2100 jpgs) I went to Filters->Animations->Playback to view the results. I was surprised that the playback window does not seem to allow resizing. Is this a known bug or perhaps a feature? It is strange ... I don't even seem to be able to move the playback window.
I know how to save the file as a GIF animation, and then modify the layer delay to essentially control the frame rate. However, I was wondering if it is possible to define the delays in the original file (which I saved as a native gimp xcf format to preserve the layers). I find the GIF format with the limited 256 colors causes the images to look too "artificial".
Finally, I was curious if there is any experience creating a morph of multiple images. I would like to create a short video in fairly high resolution of 10 annual photos of my children as a time lapse morph. Ideally I would like to keep the original as an xcf and use playback in gimp to watch on my computer. I would like to then down convert the video into other suitable formats (gif, avi, etc). I would like the ability to control individual layer delays in the xcf format to pause on each "original" image for a second or two before progressing to the "tween" layers.
Thanks Ian
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