In article <3eef33fb$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> 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?

It sounds like you are translating the individual pigments to points on 
the perimeter of a circle. Try translating them to random points inside 
the circle instead.

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