Morph is from the Greek
morphe meaning
shape or
form. For example, the word
metamorphosisMetamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation...
means
a change in shape or form. Common uses of the term include:
- Morph (comics), an X-Men character of Marvel comics
- Morph (character)
Morph is an animated Plasticine stop-motion characterthat appeared with the late Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat....
, an animated plasticine character that appeared with Tony Hart
- Morph, a character in the 2002 Disney movie Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet is an animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002...
- A tatic commonly seen on Power Rangers
Power Rangers is an American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes. First produced by Saban Entertainment and later by BVS Entertainment, the premise for the series originated from the Japanese tokusatsu...
whenever the ordinary humans transform into the Power Ranger.
- Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
- Muller's morphs
1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann J. Muller coined the terms amorph, hypomorph, hypermorph, antimorph and neomorph to classify mutations based on their behaviour in various genetic situations. These classifications are still widely used in Drosophila genetics to describe mutations...
, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
- Morph targets, in Computer generated imagery, the technique of providing an alernative shape for a specific mesh
A polygon mesh or unstructured grid is a collection of vertices, edges and faces that defines the shape of a polyhedral object in 3D computer graphics and solid modeling...
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Morph is from the Greek
morphe meaning
shape or
form. For example, the word
metamorphosisMetamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation...
means
a change in shape or form. Common uses of the term include:
Fiction
- Morph (comics), an X-Men character of Marvel comics
- Morph (character)
Morph is an animated Plasticine stop-motion characterthat appeared with the late Tony Hart, beginning in 1977, on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat....
, an animated plasticine character that appeared with Tony Hart
- Morph, a character in the 2002 Disney movie Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet is an animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002...
- A tatic commonly seen on Power Rangers
Power Rangers is an American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes. First produced by Saban Entertainment and later by BVS Entertainment, the premise for the series originated from the Japanese tokusatsu...
whenever the ordinary humans transform into the Power Ranger.
Biology
- Morph (zoology), a visual or behavioral difference between organisms of distinct populations in a species
- Muller's morphs
1946 Nobel Prize winner Hermann J. Muller coined the terms amorph, hypomorph, hypermorph, antimorph and neomorph to classify mutations based on their behaviour in various genetic situations. These classifications are still widely used in Drosophila genetics to describe mutations...
, a classification scheme for genetic mutations
Technology
- Morph targets, in Computer generated imagery, the technique of providing an alernative shape for a specific mesh
A polygon mesh or unstructured grid is a collection of vertices, edges and faces that defines the shape of a polyhedral object in 3D computer graphics and solid modeling...
. Typically, this requires the base mesh and the morph target to contain the same number of vertices in the same order, though some newer techniques allow for the transfer of morph targets between disparate meshes.
- Morphing
Morphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes one image into another through a seamless transition. Most often it is used to depict one person turning into another through technological means or as part of a fantasy or surreal sequence. Traditionally such a depiction...
, in motion pictures and animations, a special effect that changes (morphs) one image into another through a seamless transition
- Morph target animation
Morph target animation is a method of 3D computer animation that is sometimes used as an alternative to skeletal animation. Morph target animation is stored as a series of vertex positions...
, a method of animating computer generated imagery by applying different morph targets for each frame.
- Gryphon Software Morph
Morph is one of the first commercially available morphing software programs available. Produced by Gryphon Software, it is available for Windows and Macintosh platforms.The original price was approximately US $92...
, a software program for morphingMorphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that changes one image into another through a seamless transition. Most often it is used to depict one person turning into another through technological means or as part of a fantasy or surreal sequence. Traditionally such a depiction...
images (see below) by Gryphon Software
- Morph (Java), a Java
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
framework for type and object graph conversion
- Nokia Morph
The Nokia Morph is a concept mobile phone created by Finnish company Nokia. The concept, which was unveiled on February 25, 2008 at the The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was the product of a joint study into the future of mobile phones by the Nokia Research Center and the University of...
, a bendable concept mobile phone
- Morphic (software)
Morphic is a direct-manipulation User Interface construction kit based on display trees. A Morphic interface is built out of graphical objects known as morphs , which allow for a great degree of flexibility and dynamicism.Originally developed by Randy Smith and John Maloney for the Self system,...
, user interface built out of graphical objects known as morphs
- MorphXT
eMule MorphXT is a peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. GNU General Public License, just like it parent software eMule. Since the gpl allows altering the source of the program this is just such an alteration...
, Fork of the p2p program eMuleeMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network...
Miscellanea
- Morph
In morpheme-based morphology, a ' is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning.In spoken language, morphemes are composed of phonemes , and in written language morphemes are composed of graphemes .The concept morpheme differs from the concept word, as many morphemes...
, in linguistics, the vocal form of a morpheme
- Morphism
In mathematics, a morphism is an abstraction derived from structure-preserving mappings between two mathematical structures.The study of morphisms and of the structures over which they are defined, is central to category theory...
, an abstraction of a structure-preserving mapping between two mathematical structures