Facial Morphing Software/Techniques?

scraps asks: " I am assisting an evolutionary psychologist who is researching how symmetry and size of facial features affects how others perceive a person's personality. I am looking for is a way to increase and decrease the symmetry of faces (digital images, not the living flesh), as well as increase and decrease the size of facial features while maintaining a "normal-looking" face. In the days of yore, Gryphon's Morph software seemed to be the weapon of choice, but they seem to have slipped into obscurity. I am using Mac OS X 10.2, and have Photoshop 7.0. Any ideas would be most welcome."

Comments

where are you working?

[Anonymous Coward]

I ask because this is something I'm very interested in, as a layman. I would love to know who the principal is, so that I could see if they have related work or perhaps publish this work in a while. I've always been fascinated by the relation between symmetry and beauty, as well as symmetry and perceptions of people being friendly, younger, happier, etc, which I have observed personally.

Why try something new?

[cei]

I just launched Morph 1.1 in Classic mode of my G4 running Jaguar. Ran just fine. The original code has a 1992 copyright on it, but it still seems to do the trick even ten years later.

I believe there may have been a 2.0 version of Morph at some point, but I never got a copy.

Program your own!

[CaptCanuk]

Our Visual Computing class recently had to do our own morph software using the Beier-Neely Feature Based Metamorphosis Algorithm. It wasn't too difficult (well, we never went as far as Ghost-Busting sub-section of 3.3). Another cleaner copy of the algorithm can be found here.
Maybe you could implement the algorithm, and then run it on the original picture, plus a reduced size image of the subject with all the lines in the second picture proportionately smaller. Your in between morphs should have the look you desire (unless i'm reading your request wrong). Implementation of anti-aliasing using supersampling with a gaussian convolve before cross-dissolving does help!