from where?The TOYGER Cat
type?from where?
MORFS... type and pattern goals! ...or how we are thinking about it.
A designer domestic cat somewhere between a toy tiger and the real thing!
...or between Bengal tiger and Bengal cat?
Toyger- brown mackerel pattern
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TIGER to TOYGER
domestic cat - A basic Big Cat structure or type is further developed from the original rounded big boned vision of the Bengal cat (with several specific "never before in domestic cats" features)...
...then a specific tiger pattern on forehead and cheeks is overlaid ---in the (now certain) hopes that we can eventually perfect a similar one.
Note that this is NOT a computer generated morf as is the famous one below. It is rather, a composite of specific desirable shape features, or parts of the Bengal shown (we have to build our cats from the domestic) scaled or otherwise manipulated TOWARD (not TO) the look of the big cat for this domestic breed. from BENGAL domestic cat Non-computer, feature contoruction intergrade by Judy
Sugden 10/18/00 |
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TIGER
ORIGINAL COMPUTER INTERGADE MORF used in 1993 in presentation to TICA for recognition for Registration status. Note the computer generated gradation of shapes between the two images... ear roundness; eye, muzzle, nose leather, chin shape, distictness of black and white markings, etc. Unfortunately the choice of a huge bulbus nosed tiger used (rather than a rounder, "cuter" one as above), creates a rather ugly long nosed intergrade, with little chin and V shaped nose. They couldn't resist the head pattern either --- it's just lighter.
SOMALI domestic cat This original tiger to domestic image represented the first morphing computer program. If anyone knows more I'd be glad to give them due credit here. |
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example: wide Toyger nose leather on basic structure
(above) is much better than straight nose domestic (shown left) as derived
from simple morphing as it acts as foreshortening and cartooning, suggesting
a longer, broader nose and emphasising of an important trait.
Gee Whiz, a Toyger today.