Firstly, what would you call the name of the this type of effect? Is it simply considered blurring?
And secondly, how would you go about achieving this? No idea were I would start. It looks like they are just lerping to increase the size of all pixels and lerping back to normal. Would using shaders be easiest?
You linked a 4 hour video to show what you are talking about.
Could you provide the time in the video where the effect you’re talking about occurs?
The video should start at 24:20 when you click on it.
Mine started from the beginning when I clicked on it.
Yah.
Anyway, this is called de-res, or de-resolution. There are a few ways to do it. It is not a blur.
You could do it with a rendertexture or grab to texture… once you’ve got the screen stored in a texture, you have a couple of options… you could do a custom shader which then outputs that texture (to a quad/cube covering the screen) but which modifies the texture coordinates on the fly so that multiple pixels sample the same source pixel, based on a scale factor. Another way is to instead draw the texture at a smaller size (either to the backbuffer and regrab it, or to a render texture)… and then re-draw that smaller texture covering the whole screen.
The easiest way I think is with the shader - less steps.