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Re:The Magic Kernel by johncostella on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:09PM (#26550577)
Ah nice, I will correct that statement, which I was sure was bound to have a counterargument. :)
Re:The Magic Kernel by kragen on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:35PM (#26569480)
I see that now your page links to my comment, saying, "More efficient ways of performing Gaussian blur have been noted; the Magic Blur was convenient in that it made use of existing hardware libraries and calling code stack."

But in fact what I described above is the Magic Blur algorithm, just in a slightly different guise, and it can probably take advantage of existing hardware libraries in the same way. However, I don't know what your hardware libraries are doing in the blur case!

Re:The Magic Kernel by kragen on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:22AM (#26555357)
Happy to help!