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Working with Metamorphs II

You can change metamorphs selectively, either as a group of holons or individually. By selecting one or more holons and then selecting a metamorph from one of the Style buttons you can then apply the metamorph to all selected holons at the same time.

You can also choose to randomly select metamorphs by the small hat icon directly below the metamorphs boxes. Each column has a "hat" (or Random button) for that respective column.

On the right, next to each row (Reposition, Reorient, Amount, Scale, Special) you will see check boxes. These check boxes are for designating which of these fields you wish to change for that holon(s). If you check all the boxes, then all the holons selected will each have the metamorph changes randomly applied. If you only wish to change Amount, for instance, you would only check the box next to that row and only that field will change.

You will also see a Sync check box. This is for "syncing" these changes to all selected holons, otherwise each holon will have a different metamorph randomly applied to it. So if Sync was not selected and you had all three holons active, each may have a totally different metamorph applied.

Let's try a couple of different approaches. In the image below I have selected only the small holon and checked all boxes in the right column except Reorient ( and Sync since I have only one holon selected ). I have then clicked on the "hat" icon for the second metamorph Style and it has changed the metamorph to Shell and changed the fields for the boxes checked.

Now uncheck the Reposition box for the second metamorph and note the change below from the image above. Changing combinations of the Reorient and Reposition boxes for each metamorph styles can also change the image dramatically. This modification is minor but try unchecking the Reorient and Reposition buttons for the different metamorphs on each holon in different combinations and observe the changes. Return to the previous position before making the next changes.

In the next example I have selected all holons and checked the sync box ( since I wish the same metamorph to be applied to all three holons ). I have then randomly changed the numbers in each field myself and then unchecked all the other boxes since I want all three fields ( Amount, Scale and Special ) to stay at the numbers I changed them to and hit the random again. Here is the result:

In this next example I changed the Special field to 45, the Amount to 25 and hit the random again for the second style. Below is the result.

You can also easily check which holons have which metamorphs applied by selecting the small button directly above the main Metamorph button. This gives you information on each holon, what metamorphs each holon has and the degree. See example below:

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