Evolution of the computed median A_V and Σ_SFR of the spaxel-by-spaxel LIRG distributions, as a function of distance/scale. Upper panels correspond to simulations where the maps are only rebinned, whereas lower panels show the results from rebinning and smearing the maps as a result of the effect of seeing (see text for details). Colour lines represent the evolution of the median of each individual distribution, whereas white diamonds show the median of the whole LIRG distribution. The median Σ_SFR values of the ULIRG distributions within r_LIRGs = 1.4 kpc are also plotted as yellow diamonds, for reference.