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magnetbox YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	glowing stroke Aug 26th, 2008, 8:23am   Can someone point me to a stroke glow? I've seen a handful of these done in various ways, but no good examples. I want things to look a little more organic then a normal stroke.. maybe adding noise? Thanks

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: glowing stroke Reply #1 - Aug 26th, 2008, 8:36am   I would draw the line several time at the same place, with decreasing width and varying the color intensity (and perhaps opacity).

glenn Junior Member Offline Posts: 86	Re: glowing stroke Reply #2 - Aug 26th, 2008, 9:14am   you could use noise to create the random positions of lots of semi transparent ellipses as the program draws through the stroke.  as they mount up, the 'shading' fills in around the stroke. you could add a varible that makes the ellipse bigger/less transparent the closer it is to the stroke, giving you a fall-off effect.
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Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: glowing stroke Reply #3 - Aug 26th, 2008, 1:18pm   you should try it the way philho said but try to add additive blending like explained in this tutorial too, i got some great results from this. http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=71
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