v002 Blurs are replacement gaussian, motion and zoom blurs, optimized for realtime use. They respect alpha channels and are drop in replacements for standard blurs

v002 Blurs are Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compatible, are 32 and 64 bit clean, and are backwards compatible with 10.5 on Intel and Power PC Macs. This means they work anywhere you can use Quartz Composer technology, in VJ apps like VDMX, in the latest Quartz Composer Editor and anywhere else.

The v002 Blurs run significantly faster than the provided blurs from Apple, and consume less GPU resources when running. They use a 5 pass render to texture pipeline and down-sample early passes based on how much blur you apply. This means v002 Blurs run faster when you apply more blur, so you can be aggressive with your effects.

Download v002 Blurs 2.0.2

Changelog:

2.0.2:

• Fix compatibility with issue “Color Matrix” patch and friends
• Fix color fidelity issues with Quartz Composer host applications rendering to output colorspaces other than GenericRGB/GenericRGBLinear
• Fix potential incompatibility with host applications using Garbage Collection
• Fix potential initialization issue
• Fix potential dealloc issue
• Remove unnecessary function calls.

2.0.1:

• Fix regression/bug with “Render In Image” Macro support.

2.0:

• Support for 10.6 Snow Leopard and Quartz Composer 4.0. 32 and 64 bit Intel
• Backwards compatible with 10.5 and Quartz Composer 3.0, Intel & PPC
• Improved performance of blurs, now using separable convolution kernels where possible
• Fixed bugs with blur algorithm sometimes creating larger than necessary temporary images with certain settings
• Improved ‘sensitivity’ of blurs at lower amount settings, giving a better usable range of blurring

1.2:

• Enhanced FBO resource usage.
• Fixes for alpha channel support
• Improved algorithms for Motion Blur and Zoom Blur

1.1:

• Updated blur FBO code to remove some dithering in output
• Updated included QC patches to meet VDMX public Beta 7.0 spec

1.0:

• Initial release