Blur in PyGame

I am working on a short introduction to PyGame and I need to blur some static lines. After two days of searching, I can't find anything.

Does PyGame have a built-in method for blurring a shape or surface? Do I need to do this manually? What would be the best way to approach this?

To clarify, I'm not looking for motion blur - I just want a simple in-place blur, almost like a radiant effect.

Thanks in advance!

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There is no built-in blur method Surface

.

Workarounds:

  • scale Surface

    with pygame.transform.smoothscale

    and then go back to original size (ugly)

  • iterating over each pixel, getting the color of adjacent pixels, calculating the average for red, green, and blue, and setting the color of that pixel (slowly unless using something like numpy

    )

I recommend using the Python Imaging Library (PIL) as it is good and fast.

Here's a simple example:

import pygame
from PIL import Image, ImageFilter

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((512, 512))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

compressed = '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'
size, image_mode, raw = (128, 128), 'RGBA', compressed.decode("base64").decode("zlib")

# create the original pygame surface
surf = pygame.image.fromstring(raw, size, image_mode)

# create a PIL image and blur it
pil_blured = Image.fromstring("RGBA", size, raw).filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(radius=6))

# convert it back to a pygame surface
other = pygame.image.fromstring(pil_blured.tostring("raw", image_mode), size, image_mode)

pygame.time.set_timer(pygame.USEREVENT, 1000)

while True:
    for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type == pygame.USEREVENT: surf, other = other, surf
        if e.type == pygame.QUIT: break
    else:
        screen.fill((255, 255, 255))
        screen.blit(surf, (192, 192))
        pygame.display.flip()
        clock.tick(60)
        continue
    break

      



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Hint: if you are on Windows and want to install PIL, download it from here and install it via

pip install Pillow-2.8.2-cp27-none-win32.whl

      

or whatever version you downloaded (installing PIL on Windows might be a great PITA otherwise).

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