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- Le filtre se trouve à
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- This filter is new in GIMP 2.2. It does edge detection using
- the so-called "Difference of Gaussians" algorithm, which works
- by performing two different Gaussian blurs on the image, with a
- different blurring radius for each, and subtracting them to
- yield the result. This algorithm is very widely used in
- artificial vision (maybe in biological vision as well!), and is
- pretty fast because there are very efficient methods for doing
- Gaussian blurs. The most important parameters are the blurring
- radii for the two Gaussian blurs. It is probably easiest to set
- them using the preview, but it may help to know that increasing
- the smaller radius tends to give thicker-appearing edges, and
- decreasing the larger radius tends to increase the "threshold"
- for recognizing something as an edge. In most cases you will
- get nicer results if Radius 2 is smaller than Radius 1, but
- nothing prevents you from reversing them, and in
- situations where you have a light figure on the dark background,
- reversing them may actually improve the result.
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- Radius 1 and Radius 2 are the blurring radii for the two
- Gaussian blurs. The only constraints on them is that they
- cannot be equal, or else the result will be a blank
- image. If you want to produce something that looks like a
- sketch, in most cases setting Radius 2 smaller than
- Radius 1 will give better results.
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- <span class="term">Normalize</span>
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- Checking this box causes the brightness range in the
- result to be stretched as much as possible. Note that in
- the preview, only the part of the image that is shown is
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- Checking this box inverts the result, so that you see dark
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