<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eac0af71-16d5-4b66-8a95-f0c5405a23a6/F54B2F81-6C51-43D6-86CE-F15D4506203B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?css=css/base.css" href="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?css=css/base.css" style="font-size: 11px;">www.inkscape.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?css=css/base.css"><DIV class="top"> <H1 id="header"><A href="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/../index.php?css=css/base.css%26lang=">Inkscape</A></H1> <DIV class="topRight"> <IMG width="62" height="13" alt="draw%20freely" class="drawfreely" src="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/images/draw-freely.png" /> <FORM class="search" action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get"> <INPUT type="hidden" value="http://www.inkscape.org" name="domains" /> <INPUT type="hidden" value="http://www.inkscape.org" name="sitesearch" /> <INPUT type="text" class="searchbox" value="" maxlength="255" size="19" name="q" /> <INPUT type="image" value="Site%20Search" name="btnG" src="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/../images/search-button.png" class="searchboxsubmit" /> </FORM> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?css=css/base.css"><P>One of the effects made possible by Gaussian blur is curvy "ropes" or "tubes" with amazingly life-like shading. This screenshot demonstrates how you can use clones and clipping to not only create such a 3D rope but also ensure that it currectly updates when you update its original shape (<A href="http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/examples/rope-3D.svg">SVG file here</A>). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?css=css/base.css"><P>The Gaussian Blur filter support in Inkscape 0.45 made possible some extremely photorealistic art. This Lamborghini Gallardo was created by Michael Grosberg based on a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lamborghini_Gallardo_silver.jpg">photo</A> and uses blurs extensively for soft shadows and halos around bright reflections. The <A href="http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/examples/gallardo.svgz">SVG file</A> is available in Inkscape distribution. The screenshot also shows a second window with an Outline view of the same file (green outlines are clipping paths).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F54B2F81-6C51-43D6-86CE-F15D4506203B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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