Re: [css4-background][css-text-decor-3][filter-effects] shadow with horizontal and vertical blur radius

On Oct 22, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
>> I would like to discuss different blur radii for the horizontal and vertical direction. I got a request to add this for the blur() function in Filter Effects[1]. Since Filter Effects, CSS Text Decoration[2] and CSS Background and borders[3] use (fairly) the same syntax, I think it makes sense to discuss this in a global spec scope.
>> 
>> Sadly the shadow syntax does not use comma separation, which makes syntax changes a bit difficult. Maybe we can still come up with a proposal:
>> 
>>        <shadow> = inset? && [ [<length>{2} [<length>[/<length>]?] <length>?] && <color>? ]
>> 
>> This may look complicated but isn't that hard:
>> 
>>        box-shadow: 64px 64px 12px/6px 40px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);
>> 
>> Would create a black shadow with a horizontal blur radius of 12px and a vertical blur radius of 6px. Both blur radii are separated by "/". If the second parameter is missing, the vertical blur is equal to the horizontal blur. Which makes it backwards compatible.
>> 
>> All values need to be animatable separately.
> 
> What's the math for different blur radiuses?  Since 2d Gaussians are
> normally doable just by doing two 1d Gaussians in the x and y
> directions, is it simply a matter of making the two 1d Gaussians use a
> different radius?
The kernel for the gaussian blur would have a different dimension instead of quadratic. It can (and is) simulated by implementation doing 3 one dimensional box blur passes per direction. So basically like you said.

Greetings,
Dirk

> 
> ~TJ

Received on Monday, 22 October 2012 17:38:02 UTC