[PD] Blur FX on a specific area on video and camera focus blur

[Samuel Burt]

On a related note, I've been hoping to find a way to add movable
camera focus blur to 3-d primitives.  Is there an easy way to do this
with Gem?

See the example on this page:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/code/samples/glut_examples/advanced/advanced.html

Sam

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> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Blur FX on a specific area on video.
> To: Olivier Baudu <lamouraupeuple at gmail.com>
> Cc: PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
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> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Olivier Baudu wrote:
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>> We want to process a blur effect on a specific area on video.
>> To be clearer, we want to blur faces...
>> To find faces, we use [pix_opencv_haarcascade ]...
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> 1. blur the whole picture
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> 2. use the output of your detector to make a mask
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> 3. use the mask to "cut holes" through the normal picture, using the
> blurred picture. if you were to only do [pix_texture] on the
> final result, you can do [pix_texture] on both the normal and
> the fully blurred image and combine them using two separate
> [rectangle], an [alpha], and a [pix_alpha].
>
> even though it may waste a lot of blurred pixels, at least you can do it
> on all sorts of nonrectangle shapes.
>
> je suis pass? tr?s proche d'utiliser ?a hier, mais avec une autre sorte de
> d?tection compl?tement diff?rente, en particulier parce qu'on voulait que
> la zone floue soit nonrectangulaire et graduelle (un "gradient" d'alpha,
> dans l'jargon).
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