Donn wrote:
I committed the patch by Jasper which implements a faster blur algorithm, so now the Gaussian blur must be noticeably faster in the SVN trunk.
Bulia, I apologize for this OT response. Please ignore if irritated !
I have been doing some icons in the last few days and working with blur as a drop-shadow quite a lot and I wanted to ask : Is there some way to make a special case where an object can have a "live blurred clone" attached to it wherever it moves, rotates or is node-edited or has other objects joined to it? I am thinking of having a "shadow" that is simply there and is predictable such that I can focus on the thing at hand, leaving the shadow to just work. In short -- making the "shadow" a property/attribute of an object.
Have a look at this: http://inkscape.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-3D-rope.png