Splatter effect?

I have a marble rolling around an iPhone screen currently and behind it there is a background. I want the background to be obscured at first so it cannot be seen and as you move the ball around it is slowly revealed in the trail of the ball. A bit like "De Blob" in reverse (Screenshot attached). Does anyone have any idea how I might go about doing this? Obviously it's on the iPhone so in this sense I am somewhat limited.

Thanks in advance!

De Blob:

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Not sure what you mean by 'revealed in the trail of the blob" but if you mean a "Fog of War" type set-up here's some info to look at:

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/7409/how-would-i-do-fog-of-war