{"id":3754,"date":"2025-11-02T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:17:26","slug":"what-happens-if-you-blur-and-sharpen-and-image-1000-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/what-happens-if-you-blur-and-sharpen-and-image-1000-times\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if you blur and sharpen and image 1000 times?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Happens if You Blur and Sharpen an Image 1000 Times?\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7oCtDGOSgG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made a new YouTube video! This one is doing better than usual. I think I may have finally found my groove, though I have no idea what I&#8217;ll do for my next video. Amusingly this came about kind of quickly and kind of randomly. I wasn&#8217;t planning on making a video, I just went down this weird rabbit hole when I noticed this effect, and wound up learning about (spoiler alert) Turing Patterns. There&#8217;s a lot more that can be said about reaction-diffusion but I wanted to keep the video high level and light. It&#8217;s just a cool effect that has a neat underlying mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve made available the accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blur-sharpen-repeat\/\">web app<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/patorjk\/video-to-turing-pattern\">video generator<\/a> I created to make the effects in the video. Had I known people would ask for them I probably would have done them in a different language, as JavaScript is really, really slow for this kind of stuff. However, it&#8217;s the language I&#8217;m most comfortable in and I was able to bang it out really quickly (you may notice that web app is just a hollowed out version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/color-palette-generator\/\">Color Palette Generator<\/a> I showed off a few weeks ago). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a new YouTube video! This one is doing better than usual. I think I may have finally found my groove, though I have no idea what I&#8217;ll do for my next video. Amusingly this came about kind of quickly and kind of randomly. I wasn&#8217;t planning on making a video, I just went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/what-happens-if-you-blur-and-sharpen-and-image-1000-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happens if you blur and sharpen and image 1000 times?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}