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CGM Plug-in for Apple Shake: Wind Blur

Function

Different to Shake's version, the preset of CGM's plug-in just blurs the alpha channel of the image. By default a gaussian blur is used, but you can change the filter for both X and Y. It's very important to keep an eye on the spread function. Because the workspace is infinite, you can select which pixels will be used for the blur calculation - only the pixels inside the image, or outside as well. If you are getting clipping or dark edges on your final image you should toggle Blur Alphas's spread parameters.

Parameters
Type
Defaults
Function
angle
float
45 The direction of the blur in degree.
blur
float
200 The amount of blur in pixels, for example the amount of 200 will blur 200 pixels to either side of the current pixel.
softness
float
10

This is the softness of the wind blur.

channels
string
"rgba" Which channels will be blurred. Any or all of rgba.

Synopsis

image WindBlur(
 image In,
 float angle,
 float blur,
 float softness,
 const char * channels
);

Script

image = WindBlur( In, angle, blur, softness, "channels" );

Command Line (Terminal)

shake -windblur angle blur softness channels

Examples (Terminal)

shake /www.CGM-online.com/doc/CGM_Logo.tif -windblur 130 380
- adds the WindBlur filter to the CGM logo. The blur amount is set to 380 pixels in the angle of 130 degree.
  The preset values are used for all other parameters.

shake /www.CGM-online.com/doc/CGM_Logo.tif -windblur 0 "Linear(0,0@1,720@20)"
- adds the WindBlur filter to the CGM logo and animates the amout of blur from 0 to 720 during the frame
  range of 1 to 20.

shake /www.CGM-online.com/doc/CGM_Logo.tif -windblur 5 400 10 "rgbn"
- adds the WindBlur filter to the CGM logo and blurs all channels instead of the alpha channel.

Example (Shake's Command Line)

/www.CGM-online.com/doc/CGM_Logo.tif -windblur 0 720

 

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