From: prothero@hitl.washington.edu (Jerry Prothero)
Subject: Re: INFO: Metaballs?
Date: 30 Jun 1993 21:39:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington



> I recently saw a magazine article on METABALLS. It was the way some of
> the animation of Jurastic Park was done. Does anyone remember what
> Magazine that was in (I do remember that it was an engineering type
> journal)? If you have the info, could you forward it to me?

> [MODERATOR'S NOTE: I could be wrong, but I believe that either IRIS or
> COMPUTER GRAPHICS WORLD ran an article on the use of metaballs to
> create animated graphics.  Metaballs are a type of elongated, flexible
> polygon element that conforms in a rough way to animated forms.
> Others with more knowledge, please chime in. -- Bob Jacobson]

Don't know if this is the only one recently, but the article I have is
Gaye L. Graves, "The Magic of Metaballs", *Computer Graphics*, May 93,
27--32.

Jerry