Some Soft Blur

[Sjan Top]

Hi there folks!

i was thinking, what if you blur the bright pixels more than the dark ones.
Apparently it gives a very nice soft blur, bloomy. Here is a patch for you all to play with.
Bits of the patch are renderd at 16bit to get nice blending, so try the 1/4 render scale, if you are losing more fps then your convertible with.

[Arvol]

10 Instances of Blur is pretty expensive. If you can remove the Linear node that should help.

[Sjan Top]

i'm aware of the expensive nature of blur.
Without the instances the whole concept is net going to work.
Here is a update with more performance options (16bit/8bit/nr. of instances)