Fast, general-purpose blurring operation. Suitable for most purposes, this operation is essentially constant-time with kernel width. The different types of kernels yield different visual results. Note that each of the examples below produces a result image of a different size: as mentioned before, the rectangle occupied by a result is guaranteed to contain all non-zero contributions from the original image.
Box filtering employs an incremental moving window algorithm which makes it extremely fast. Note that IceMan allows the filter width to be non-integral, and that such widths yield the expected "weighted-sum" result.
x
Width of blur in x. In pixels (int).
y
Width of blur in y. In pixels (int).
blurType
Type of blurring kernel (int). Default Box.
Available blur types from IceBlurType:
blurType = ice.constants.BLUR_BOX result = m1_1.Blur(10, 1, blurType) |
blurType = ice.constants.BLUR_GAUSSIAN result = m1_1.Blur(10, 1, blurType) |
blurType = ice.constants.BLUR_BICUBIC result = m1_1.Blur(10, 1, blurType) |
General convolution with arbitrary kernel. The kernel must have x * y entries.
x
Size in x of kernel (int).
y
Size in y of kernel (int).
kernel
Convolution kernel (list).
// DiscKernel is a function that generates a circular convolution // kernel 30 pixels in diameter. disc = DiscKernel(30) result = fruit.Convolve(30, 30, disc) |
This is full-fledged, no-magic-tricks convolution. For large kernels, this can be very time-consuming. |
This is not a true convolution. Effectively, the operation is a multiplication of the kernel by the channel value at the center of the kernel, and subsequent addition with all the pixels under the kernel. This operation is performed for all points in the specified point list. Note that the points may be non-integral.
Useful for generating "sparkle" or "starburst" effects.
kernelImage
Image to be used as convolution kernel (ice.Image)
pointList
List of points at which convolution is to be performed (list of lists of 2 ints)
This is not a true convolution. Effectively, the operation is a multiplication of the kernel by the channel value at the center of the kernel, and subsequent addition with all the pixels under the kernel. This operation is performed for all points in the trigger image that are not zero.
Useful for generating "sparkle" or "starburst" effects.
kernelImage
Image to be used as convolution kernel (ice.Image)
triggerImage
"Trigger" image (ice.Image)
# Create a starburst "kernel" sparkleType = ice.constants.SPARKLE_FRAUNHOFERSLITS size = [128, 128] center = [64, 64] kernel = ice.Sparkle(sparkleType, size, center, ice.constants.FRACTIONAL, 23) # Translate the kernel so that it's centered at the origin kernel = kernel.Translate((-64, -64)) # Perform selective convolution .. result = image.ConvolveTrig(kernel, image.Shuffle([0]).Gt( ice.Card(ice.constants.FLOAT,[7.9]))) # and add a fraction of the result back into the original # image result = result.Add(result.Multiply( ice.Card(ice.constants.FLOAT,[0.05]) )) |
The trigger image is typically generated by thresholding an input image. |
Morphological dilation/erosion operation. Positive pixel values result in dilation and negative ones in erosion. Values may be non-integral, and results vary as expected.
Dilation is done by filling all values in a neighborhood with the maximum value, and erosion by filling with the minimum value. It is particularly useful for tweaking matte edges. |
pixels: Amount in pixels to dilate or erode (int).
Directional blur operation.
width
Blur width in pixels (int).
angle
Blur direction in degrees (float).
blurType
Type of blur (int).
blurType = ice.constants.BLUR_GAUSSIAN result = cdev.DirectionalBlur(20, 20, blurType) |
Simple Gaussian blur operation. The operation is separable, and is thus performed in one dimension at a time, but there's no other attempt at optimization. Intended for use only in special cases where Blur is not suitable.
blurWidth: Width of blur in pixels (list).
Compute the gradient of an image using center-differencing. Each channel in the original image results in two channels in the result, corresponding respectively to the horizontal and vertical components of the gradient vector field.
This operation performs convolution with a bicubic (which approximates a sinc function) such that the image is band-limited to the specified spatial frequency. The frequency is expressed as a fraction of the maximum spatial frequency representable in the image.
freq
Spatial threshold frequency in x and y (list).
Variable-width blur operation. The extent of blur at each pixel is specified by an image. The widthRange argument specifies the blur widths corresponding to 0 and 1 in the blur-width image.
width
Blur width image (ice.Image).
widthRange
Blur width scale (list)
blurType
Blur type (int).