An alternative technique for shape morphing
using a surface generating method using partial differential
equations is outlined throughout this work. The boundaryvalue
nature that is inherent to this surface generation
technique together with its mathematical properties are
hereby exploited for creating intermediate shapes between
an initial shape and a final one. Four alternative shape
morphing techniques are proposed here. The first one is
based on the use of a linear combination of the boundary
conditions associated with the initial and final surfaces,
the second one consists of varying the Fourier mode for
which the PDE is solved whilst the third results from a
combination of the first two. The fourth of these alternatives
is based on the manipulation of the spine of the surfaces,
which is computed as a by-product of the solution. Results
of morphing sequences between two topologically nonequivalent
surfaces are presented. Thus, it is shown that the
PDE based approach for morphing is capable of obtaining
smooth intermediate surfaces automatically in most of the
methodologies presented in this work and the spine has been
revealed as a powerful tool for morphing surfaces arising
from the method proposed here
