Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician who discovered lots of cool stuff, but he’s most know for inventing the Gaussian distribution. A bell shaped curve that comes up a lot in statistics and imaging. Basically it’s a mathematical way of representing the way things are normally distributed with a lot data points near the average and fewer near the extremes. Most laser beams are not circles, but gaussians. (lots of laser in the middle and it sort of fades away at the edges) so it comes up at work a lot. A Gaussian blur is a simple mathematical way to blur an image. (You “convolve” the image with the gaussian). And Voila you now have a blurry image. Mostly it was just something to say to keep Carrot’s post from being the last one.
