Postings by Mathias on November 24, 2008
Blur Effect with cairo
Wondered how to apply convolution filters, like for instance gaussian blur in cairo. Doesn't seem to be possible yet. Well, unless you remember that cairo uses pixman as backend for its image surface. Result of my hacks below:
The code is in the blur_image_surface() function of blur-effect.c. Now the question is how to make a nice cairo API for this code, and how to hardware accelerate this. At least XRender seems to define API for convolution filters.
Update: Get full code via git clone http://taschenorakel.de/git/playground
