Start With some text. I used a 60pt cooper in a 250x100RGB with antialias 3 c-N

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Blurr it Spread it and Ripple it I used Gaussian-Blur 2.0 and Spread it 4and a random Ripple with a period of 15 and amplitude of 2 s-a-B

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Edge Detect Invert and Multiply the image with itself a few times. Then finally Invert it. I used an amount of 10 for edgedetection. The Multiplications should be done on the result of the previous. I did 4. a-E

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