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Motion blur at opensource encyclopedia Because the effect is caused by the relative motion of the camera, object and scene being imaged, the camera may be used to track moving objects by panning the camera such that even with long exposure times motion blur is avoided on the moving object but instead appears on the background. Although this gives sharper slow motion replays it can look strange at normal speed because the eye expects to see motion blurring and does not. Motion blur is the apparent streaking of rapidly moving objects in a still image or a sequence of images such as a movie or animation. www.wiki.tatet.com /Motion_blur.html   (357 words)

Gaussian blur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Gaussian blur is a type of image-blurring filter that uses a normal distribution (also called "Gaussian distribution", thus the name "Gaussian blur") for calculating the transformation to apply to each pixel in the image. Mathematically speaking, applying a Gaussian blur to an image is the same as convolving the image with a Gaussian or Normal Distribution. Since the Fourier Transform of a Gaussian is another Gaussian, one should immediately notice that applying a Gaussian Blur has the effect of low pass filtering the image. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaussian_blur   (602 words)

Motion blur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In pre-rendered computer animation, such as CGI movies, simply raising the frame rate is not possible, but realistic motion blur can be drawn because the renderer has much longer to draw each frame. Because the effect is caused by the relative motion of the camera, object and scene being imaged, the camera may be used to track moving objects by panning the camera such that even with long exposure times motion blur is avoided on the moving object but instead appears on the background. For this reason special cameras are often used which eliminate motion blurring by taking rapid exposures on the order of 1/1000 of a second, and then transmitting them over the course of the next 1/25 or 1/30 of a second. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motion_blur   (513 words)

Blur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blur were one of the British bands who appeared in the wake of the Stone Roses 's eponymous album, mixing psychedelic pop rock with very loud guitars. Blur released " Country House ", the first single from their new album, in August amidst media attention, as Albarn had requested the single's release moved up a week to compete with the release of "Roll With It," a new single from Blur's chief rivals, Oasis. Through some reinvention, Blur reclaimed their position as an art pop rock band in the late 1990s by incorporating indie rock and lo-fi influences of the American bands in the style of Pavement and R.E.M., which finally gave them their elusive American success in 1997. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blur   (513 words)

Motion Blur Although our renderer's implementation of motion blur is physically very accurate---for instance, our motion blur accurately portrays curved trajectories and captures highlights that appear in the middle of a motion blur streak (something that many other architectures, including prman's, fail to do)---we were willing to sacrifice some of that accuracy for speed. Because a physically correct implementation dramatically increases the number of shading samples by spreading them over the additional dimension of time, a motion blurred render can take many times longer to complete than the equivalent static render. The cost of this interpolation is minimal; it is dwarfed by the cost of constructing the non-shaded geometry of the triangles along the motion blur trajectory. www.rhythm.com /~ivan/mb.html   (726 words)

Blur Album Reviews Blur is one of the most interesting bands of the past ten years (British or American), and since their entertaining but inconsistent albums have always been highlighted by their singles, it would stand to reason that The Best Of Blur would indeed be just that. What would become longstanding Blur weaknesses originate here (lesser second halves, by and large the singles are the best songs, and overly cluttered and chaotic arrangements), but Blur also begin to assert their strengths (vocal hooks all over the place, an ability to tackle any style and make it work) as well. This album continues in the same dreary direction as the last album, only Blur forgot to write actual songs this time, as 13 is primarily comprised of atmospheric mood pieces and lo-fi Americanized rockers seemingly bashed out on the spot. www.geocities.com /sfloman/blur.html   (726 words)

Blur Album Reviews Blur – or Seymour as they were called before they recorded their first single – chose the easiest solution and did what quite a few acts had done before: throw those influences together, make sure you behave like a moron and get noticed. It’s not surprising that nowadays this album is regarded as the pinnacle of Brit-pop, or as one of the era’s classic touchstones, because it boasts a sprawling diversity that would inspire a legion of imitators and paved the way for other top acts such as Supergrass and Elastica. Album opener “Ambulance” is certainly also among the highlights here: trippy and completely devoid of (audible) guitar, it shows that the new approach can work, with a myriad of sounds and textures they’d never used before, not in that way. www.guypetersreviews.com /blur.php   (726 words)

CapitolMusic.ca Blur as we know them were born in 1989 when the band signed to Food/EMI. Second album "Modern Life Is Rubbish" reintroduced the idea that specifically English rock music could be cool, and by the time their third album, the legendary "Parklife", emerged on 25 April, 1994, the rest of the UK had caught up. While defying the rumours that it would be either 1) their "dance" album or 2) their "world music" album, it is their grooviest so far, with an eclectic variety of rhythms and textures underpinning melodies to melt the heart and wobble the lower lip. www.capitolmusic.ca /artist_page.asp?artist_id=156   (726 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Music: The Best of Blur Blur: The Best Of is a rather misleading title as this album is infact just a compilation of all of their singles up to and including Music Is My Radar. This is meant to be a crossover album that appeals to people who have always quite liked Blur, quite liked their singles, but not enough to buy all their albums, just like myself who happens to love this album. To me, Blur have always been an excellent singles band but their albums are generally a bit average. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000509DR   (726 words)

CD Review: Blur, Self-Titled Blur could have ended up being Parklife Volume 3 ; instead, the band has realized that they owe it to their own sanity to make an album that marches to the beat of its own drum. Maybe it was best to let the smokescreen spread as Blur disavowed the very sound that gained them their popularity and prepared to reinvent themselves for the second time in their career. All told, this is not a truly great album -- by no means is it Blur's best -- but it shows that Damon and co. know where their music has to go in order to survive. www.dropd.com /issue/51/CD/Blur   (726 words)

hip online: artists: blur Blur is an abrasive but oddly attractive record that added some great new songs to the Blur canon, not least the anthemic "Song 2" and the mysterious "Strange News From Another Star" as well as a first solo foray on a Blur album from Graham, the cracked and melancholy "You're So Great." Always the brightest group of their generation, Blur has spent the past two years showing themselves to be one of the bravest. Despite public indifference to their lost classic single "Popscene", Blur stuck to their guns and with Modern Life Is Rubbish, a record that's darkly and quixotically British and flew in the face of the inert mass of bad grunge that most pop culture commentators were fixated on. www.hiponline.com /artist/music/b/blur   (726 words)

3dfx Archive - 3dfx Technology: Motion Blur Moving objects are blurred, just as they are in real film, to enable very smooth and continuous motion. By exaggerating an object's motion blur, T-Buffer can create the illusion of tremendous speed and make a scene much more visually appealing. Motion blur can both remove the jerkiness from a computer-generated animation and create the illusion of enhanced speed and motion. digilander.libero.it /F1Land/3dfxarchive/develop/tech/motionblur.html   (368 words)

AL: Language Ref: Rendering: Motion Blur Because motion blur is specified in frame units, the specific frame or frames to be rendered must be specified using the "frame" or "framelist" rendering options. If no automatic motion blur is used in the scene, the shutter will have to be set manually by specifying ri-shutter in the 'option parameter to the render command. When used this way, the automatic motion blur will set the shutter open and closetimes to 0 and 1 for the entire scene -- therefore, 0 and 1 should be used for time1 and time2 in the manual form of the motion blur gop. accad.osu.edu /~smay/AL/LangRef/motion.html   (503 words)

Motion Indicators While motion blur is an intuitive way to describe movement, it has its drawbacks: it takes up quite a bit of screen real estate and loses much of the information present in the original image. While the blurred image does manage to convey more of a feel of the motion, all the detail of the image is lost. In the following visualization, each strobe sprite is laid on top of a previous image that has been blurred out. www.cs.washington.edu /homes/antoine/videoVis/motion.html   (1033 words)

Motion blur Render the 2D blur and composite those elements back into the scene. Blur the animation sequence using the Maya render (interactive or batch), which calls the stand-alone for each frame. Motion blur is not rendered in raytraced reflections and refractions. flatje.cuno.info /~cuno/maya45en/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesRender6.html   (267 words)

[H]ardForum - Ghosting Vs. Motion Blur On an LCD, fast-moving onscreen objects can move faster than the LCD's ability to display them, causing each frame to blend into the next, creating a blur. Even if you dispute the use of the term "motion blur", the onscreen blur on an LCD that is not quite severe enough to be called ghosting is caused by the same reason ghosting occurs, because the pixels can't refresh fast enough before the next frame. I think a lot of us, myself included, consider ghosting the same thing as motion blur so we all need to have a general understanding from now on so I agree with you 100 percent. www.hardforum.com /printthread.php?t=775081   (2594 words)

Go motion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Stop motion animation can create a disorienting staccato effect; go motion was designed to prevent this by moving the animated model slightly during the exposure of each film frame, producing a realistic (Click link for more info and facts about motion blur) motion blur. This frame-by-frame, split second motion is almost always created with the help of a computer, often through rods connected to a puppet or model which the computer manipulates to reproduce movements programmed in by puppeteers. Today, go motion is rarely used, if ever, as it is more complicated and expensive than computer generated effects, even for the novice filmmaker. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/go_motion.htm   (131 words)

Using Vector Motion Blur - Tutorials - LightWave 3D® As we can see, the render time increases rapidly with higher levels of motion blur, which can be a real limitation if the render time is already high without motion blur. It is called "vector" because each pixel in the image is given a speed vector used as the information to blur the pixel in a given direction and with a given strength. On the left are examples that show the same image rendered with different levels of motion blur. www.newtek.com /products/lightwave/tutorials/rendering/vector_motion_blur/vector_motion_blur.html   (335 words)

Gaussian Blur, VB Source Code A Gaussian blur generates the greatest smoothing effect in the center of an image. The matrix convolution kernel coefficients are selected to approximate the Gaussian distribution along the width, length, and diagonal of the kernel. For details about the Gaussian blur kernel development see The Image Processing Handbook, by John C Russ, CRC Press. www.webcom.com /~victor/howto/gaussian.html   (207 words)

gaussian blur algorithm - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums The blurring is dense in the center and feathers at the edges. Gaussian refers to the bell-shaped curve that is generated when Adobe Photoshop applies a weighted average to the pixels. If I had photoshop it would be easy to answer your question, but my guess is that either the "radius" IS sigma, the standard deviation, or that sigma is calculated from this radius so that the radius represents a fixed percentage of the gaussian. www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=257713   (1926 words)

GIMP - Noise removal with selective Gaussian blur In short, maximum delta should be just high enough for the filter to kick in on the noise and blur radius should be just high enough to remove it (actually blend it with neighboring areas). Since the selective Gaussian blur filter doesn't have a preview and is quite heavy to compute (proportional with blur radius), it's easier to only work on a cropped version of you picture. The next thing is to experiment with different combinations of the settings ("blur radius" and "maximum delta") in the selective Gaussian blur filter. www.gimp.org /tutorials/Selective_Gaussian_Blur   (475 words)

Registry: List of Plug-Ins This is the original ``blur plug-in with a GUI added for setting the percentage of the pixels to blur and a repeat count. You specify the number of times blurring is applied, and an image whose pixel values determine the amount of blurring at each point. This is somewhat like the standard Selective Gaussian Blur plugin, but gives better results in some situations. registry.gimp.org /list?category=2   (403 words)

Gaussian Blur Effect A Gaussian Blur is distinct from other blurs in that it has a well defined effect on different levels of detail within an image. As well as having this well defined and consistent frequency response, certain characteristics of the Gaussian function mean that large blurs can be applied much faster than other similar kinds of filters. A Gaussian Blur is a general purpose blur filter. www.websupergoo.com /helpie/source/2-effects/gaussianblur.htm   (156 words)

Blur Some have said that Blur have had problems in the US in the past because of their songs relations to British life i.e 'Country House' and the like. Its two years since Blur won the 'battle of the bands' pushing their single 'Country House' to number one in the UK charts. With this album they hope to conquer the US market - the hardest of all to crack. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/CJWH/Blur.html   (156 words)

Adrian's Album Reviews : Blur Blur survive a flop fourth single ( 'Popscene', although actually it was a rather spiffing tune) to find their second album NEARLY produced by Andy Partridge of XTC, only apparently, nobody liked his early mixes of several of the songs they worked on together. Blur beat Oasis in the singles charts, 'Country House' pipping 'Roll With It' to the number one spot when both songs were released on the same day, sometime circa Autumn 1995. Blur were fairly interesting back in 1990, 1991 - being one of the few bands that could legitimately claim to sound both baggy and shoe-gazing. www.adriandenning.co.uk /blur.html   (156 words)

Blur (album) - Enpsychlopedia Blur is the fifth album by Blur, first release in 1997. The album's style was a result of them dropping the Britpop direction that had suddenly become unhip in the wake of The Great Escape' s release and turning on to lo-fi indie recordings (at Coxon 's urging). The album was a hit and proved that Blur could evolve beyond their Britpop roots. www.grohol.com /psypsych/Blur_(album)   (156 words)

BBC - Rock & Alt Review - Blur, Think Tank Blur are a well established band with a history of producing cohesive tracks in the so called 'Brit-pop' style. Blur remind me of Pink Floyd in that they are constantly evolving their sound, to pleasant surprise. This Blur album reminds me of both and I'm already labelling it 'the album of the year'. www.bbc.co.uk /music/rockandalt/reviews/blur_thinktank.shtml   (156 words)

the-scene: Blur and Graham Coxon Blur were offered millions of pounds by the US Army to let them use Song 2 to launch a new Stealth Jet. It was different from any of the Blur singles from previous years and had a predominate Beatles sound to it. Blur was released after the battle of the bands with Oasis. www.musicfanclubs.org /blur/bio.html   (156 words)

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