Hi all

Here's what I couldn't explain clearly enough in my recent flame-news messages:

fig. 1
 

fig. 2

As you can see, green cancells purple. What we do next is to hand-simplify green (result: red)
 

fig. 3

In this example, if I had not hand-drawn the red curve, the lower curve would have gone below its intended limit of about -30, then it would have come back.
 

fig. 4

If we had used just the jitter/simplify/average functions, the simplification would not have been as controlled as this one. For instance:

-applying enough simplifying for range 370-420 would have over-simplified ranges  580-650 and 770-840
-applying a correct amount of simplification for the jitter in range 700-800 might not be enough to get rid of the irregularities of range 450-500 (let alone 370-420)

OK, so I guess some of you might be wondering: WHAT kind of shot was this guy given?!?!? Well, low budget, bad planning and the "we'll fix it in post" client-proverb go a long way, a very very long way!

Hope all of you flame-news people who got here found this of at least some interest / use.

Eric