We might want to switch the BlurEffect from a box-blur to a
super-sampling of the texture target, in order to make it cheap(er).
If we inherit from ShaderEffect, though, we're setting in stone the
fact that we are going to use a fragment shader for blurring.
Since there is not parametrization of the blur, the code necessary
to implement effect is pretty small, and we can use the Cogl API
directly.
Sub-classes of ShaderEffect currently have to get the handle for the
Cogl shader and call cogl_shader_source(); this makes it awkward to
implement a ShaderEffect, and it exposes handles and Cogl API that we
might want to change in the future.
We should provide a ClutterShaderEffect method that allows to (safely)
set the shader source at the right time for sub-classes to use.
A simple, GLSL shader-based blur effect.
The blur shader is taken straight from the test-shader.c interactive
test case. It's a fairly clunky, inefficient and visually incorrect
implementation of a box blur, but it's all we have right now until I
figure out a way to do multi-pass shading with the current API.