– What makes Gaussian blur, well, Gaussian? What exactly makes it different from other types of blurring?

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– What makes Gaussian blur, well, Gaussian? What exactly makes it different from other types of blurring?

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I think Mr. Gauss defined a rather boring curve, perhaps with some natural significance, and a Gaussian blur is a kind of pixel-by-surrounding-pixel weighted average following that curve.