Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.babsi.de!open-news-network.org!news2.open-news-network.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mark Carroll Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:18:29 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 12 Message-ID: <878v0vgii2.fsf@ixod.org> References: <87ob9run40.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> <87ehangiql.fsf@ixod.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-71-47-217.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news2.open-news-network.org 1374740310 7718 82.71.47.217 (25 Jul 2013 08:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@open-news-network.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:18:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:B063n+XMLB6aWK+fKOXez8YIMsQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1505 Mark Carroll writes: > I don't immediately see how I'd do blurring I suppose that for completeness I should mention that I can imagine some scheme where a very pale version of the letter is drawn many times in a larger circle, then a slightly darker one slightly further in, etc., ending with a grey one at the center of the shadow, but I have never tried it: I don't know how it would look and how slowly it would go. They may well be rather better ideas. Mark