All M.C. Escher works (c) Cordon Art B.V.-Baarn- the Netherlands.     All rights reserved. Used by permission. Metamorphose is a compact applet for viewing panorama pictures. Here is shows a modified version of M.C. Escher's woodcut "Metamorphose II." The applet is written in "pure Java 1.0" and thus available on all Java enabled browsers. To move the picture, you can use the scroller in the bottom left corner of the applet. The direction and the speed of the movement is adjustable by the scroller. You can move the picture with the mouse too. Simply click on the panaorama and drag the picture with the mouse.

The description of the applet parameters based on the example "Metamorphose II". M.C. Escher's woodcut "Metamorphose II" is used as panorma picture in this applet. Here you can find background information, a detail section form the original picture and some bookmarks. The applet Metamorphose supports animated panorama pictures. A nice example for this shows the Platonic universe: The five Platonic solids and their combinations are rotating in an universe.

Here you can select between two versions: The file Metamorphose.zip (13 kByte) contains the four Java classes Metamorphose, Picture, Panaorma und Scroller. The file includes the source code too. All four classes are needed to run the applet. The file Metamorphose-en.zip (196 kByte) contains beside this page the first two pages listet in chapter "See also" with all needed resources.

This applet may be used for private and commercial purposes freely, if a reference to the author or a link to this page is included. Please note that the image "Metamorphose II" is for personal, non-commercial use only. Copyright © 2000 by Rüdiger Appel, all rights reserved.