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Right now I'm working on an image processing flow backed with GraphicsMagick (ImageMagick independent fork) and I want to add optional blur into it.

But people who'll work with it not familiar with Gaussian blur and its radius and sigma parameters. So they asked me to accept blur percentage instead.

I searched for heuristics behind blur percentage, but I only found that it's an "amount of image taken into consideration for determining each pixels value".

So, the best solution I found is to calculate sigma based on the following rule:

6 \sigma = \frac{persentage}{100\%} * \sqrt{width^2 + height^2}

Does anyone know any better way to determine blur parameters based on its percentage?

Leonid Beschastny
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Your solution looks reasonable. To get the "sigma" recommended by *Magick, which is 0.5 to 0.7, they'd have to put in percentages like 0.1 if they are working with images that measure 3000 or 4000 pixels diagonally. Radius is supposed to be an integer, 2 or 3 times the sigma. Sigma defaults to 1 if not given to either *Magick.

Glenn Randers-Pehrson
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  • Small sigmas (like 0.5 to 0.7) used for smoothing an image to make it look better, while bigger sigmas (2-3 or higher) used to blur it. As for the radius, 3*sigma is a common solution. – Leonid Beschastny Mar 13 '14 at 06:52