Doh! I just read your reply to my other post on p.b.i. Now I understand why you
want to avoid processing the image beforehand :)

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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
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> Random positions -inside- a circle should look good.
> But it will render a *lot* quicker if you can find some way to blur the
texture
> before you apply it.
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> "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> > Lets say I have a picture. Via patterns, averaging
> > pigments, layered textures etc I'd like to blur the
> > image_map. How would I do that? I've first though
> > about translating the image_map off to the right,
> > and then rotate that translation, i.e. translating the
> > image to the right, then down, then left, then up.
> > The more samples I take, the more I average together.
> > This obviously doesn't truly blur the image and is
> > very visible as a circular effect... Any ideas?
> >
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