Comments on: Surface Blur http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:13:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: RC http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-7322 RC Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:52:26 +0000 http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-7322 Hi Matt, cant this approach be also used to avoid the "UV islands" problem with http://mke3.net/weblog/fast-fake-sss/ ? Hi Matt,
cant this approach be also used to avoid the “UV islands” problem with http://mke3.net/weblog/fast-fake-sss/ ?

]]> By: Jiri Hnidek http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1099 Jiri Hnidek Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:20:11 +0000 http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1099 Hi Matt, aha, I can see it at screenshot. You do sobel filtering of two directions of normal map, etc. That's true ... we can get much better result using such methods. Hi Matt,
aha, I can see it at screenshot. You do sobel filtering of two directions of normal map, etc. That’s true … we can get much better result using such methods.

]]> By: Darek http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1098 Darek Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:57:53 +0000 http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1098 Hey Matt, that really would be useful. I'm tired of waiting for all those extra passes to render. Hey Matt, that really would be useful. I’m tired of waiting for all those extra passes to render.

]]> By: Matt http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1097 Matt Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:15:56 +0000 http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1097 Hi Jiri: It's not really what I want - Photoshop has something similar called 'smart blur' too. In both cases, those filters are just using the existing RGBA pixels to decide what to blur and what not to blur - basically just guessing with an edge detect filter. In Blender we have a lot more information about the geometry's surface (with the Normal and Z passes) so it would be good if we could use that information to make a more accurate mask for the blur. cheers Hi Jiri:

It’s not really what I want - Photoshop has something similar called ’smart blur’ too. In both cases, those filters are just using the existing RGBA pixels to decide what to blur and what not to blur - basically just guessing with an edge detect filter. In Blender we have a lot more information about the geometry’s surface (with the Normal and Z passes) so it would be good if we could use that information to make a more accurate mask for the blur.

cheers

]]> By: Jiri http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1096 Jiri Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:15:49 +0000 http://mke3.net/weblog/surface-blur/#comment-1096 Hi Matt, this is very good suggestion. I guess, that something like this exist in Gimp ... run Gimp, open image rendered with AO, RMP, Filters, Blur, Selective Gaussina Blur ... Is this case, what you want? Hi Matt,
this is very good suggestion. I guess, that something like this exist in Gimp … run Gimp, open image rendered with AO, RMP, Filters, Blur, Selective Gaussina Blur … Is this case, what you want?

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