Timothy Hunter on  wrote...
| Regarding the images labeled "Figure 3" and "Figure 4" on this web  
| page: http://screamyguy.net/web20/web20.htm, is there a way to  
| simulate this effect with ImageMagick? I'm not looking for a perfect  
| match, just the effect of blurriness increasing from the top of the  
| reflection to the bottom.
| 
| (Just an outline of an approach using the MagickCore API would be  
| enough.)
| 
The perfect mirror use, the more distorted with distance, not really.

Those particular images would have been done with a ray tracer which is
designed for this task, and even the shadow effects behind the figures.

Actually after reading the text, it was done with a raytracer, not an
image manipulator.

However they do talk about using a convolution filter, and IM can handle
such filters, but they modify the filter for each line of the image to
adjust the amount of blur that is added so the further away form the
image you are the more blury it gets.

In summery,  Yes it can be done, but may need to scripted to handle the
results basied on a hight changing variablilty.

EG:  take image, blur it Y times with later blurs, then extract and
append a single line of pixels from each image to produce a hight
variable blur.

Not simple outside of the core IM, and would be a new 'specialized blur'
operation.  I have added it to the list for a future, consolidated
special blur operator...

   http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/bugs/future/#blur

Of course when these blurs gets implemented is another matter.

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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