Peter Dempsey wrote:

>><Finally do you know how to distort pictures, not just resize them?

Joe Wilkins wrote:

>I think if you use the toolbox FN InsetRect to adjust the size of a
picture's
>reactangle that you may be able to do what you want.  I've never done
>it, but IM makes it sound as if this would work.

This may not be 100% what you want but Perspective Copy in FJII (its on the
FB^3 disk somewhere)
distorts rectangles to parallelograms. I thought this would be a great way
the next DOOM game in FB^3
but while its fast its not fast enough for game animation.

Tracer provides a form of graphics distortion (compiled program available
from my web site
http://website.lineone.net/~andy.pritchard) but in effect it is rectangular
resize, masked by a polygon
and "faded" (using Derek Smith's useful fade routine) - it manages some
adequate distortion
but it is not up to Metacreation "Goo" standards...

I refer to Robert Covington (aka Robert Curves) who thinks FB^3 graphics
programming in his sleep
for advanced methods of graphics perversion, sorrry, "distortion" :-)

Andy P

On a side note, to anyone who's interested (besides me, that is) Macdoodle
has now been reviewed
at:
http://www.atpm.com/6.06/macdoodle.shtml
July MacFormat magazine 89% rating