Trying to put together a process for generating a scene that uses focal
blur.  Check out the link for the results:

http://www.huntel.net/goofygraffix/img/focal_blur.MPG

To make this, I rendered each element separately (the red blocks, the torii,
and the green cylinders), using no_image for the elements that aren't to be
visible.  The blocks and torii were rendered as PNGs with the alpha channel
on.  I then brought the foreground elements into Photoshop & applied
Gaussian blur (including the alpha channel) - I wrote a script in
Applescript to automate the process for all 96 frames.  Did the same for
the background elements, only a little less blur.  Then, I used POV to
render the elements as image_maps on polygons for the final frames.

The foreground elements have a slight whitish halo as they cross in front of
the torii, but that's because I used the white background when I rendered
them, so it's something easily fixed.

Comments welcome.

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Dan
Goofy Graffix - http://www.huntel.net/goofygraffix

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