Voxel-Based Morphing

It is a common practice in the field of graphics to exploit the basic laws of nature and apply these laws to the benefit of realistic imagery. So long, these applications have been limited to rendering using realistic light models, animating vibrations and crack propagation and deformation using physical forces, to name a few. Morphing is defined as the combination of generalized image warping with a cross-dissolve between image elements. In this report, the use of natural laws of physics has been extended to the field of warping. A new method is proposed, in which each particle (pixel or voxel) undergoes motion under the influence of elastic restoring forces generated due to the dislocation of the Control Points (CPs), used for warping. The motion continues till the particle attains equilibrium once again. The set of new equilibrium points forms the warped image. The motivation of this work may be attributed to the vast expanse of ways this method can be potentially applied to the si..