Gaussian distribution.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

What you are trying to do is effectively implement what's called a Gaussian Filter.    From Wordnik.com.  [GameDev.Net] Reference

This curve is also called the Gaussian curve, after the nineteenth-century German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss.    From Wordnik.com.  [normal distribution curve] Reference

Moreover, he found a mathematical quantity, now called the Gaussian curvature of a surface, that is of major importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [RELATIVITY] Reference

Returns to CompizConfig and select "Gaussian" in Blur Filter.    From Wordnik.com.  [KDE-Look.org Content] Reference

For the Gaussian surface inside the mass it is easy to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Galaxy Pinpoints Reionization Era | Universe Today] Reference

Use the filter “Gaussian Blur” on the duplicated layer.    From Wordnik.com.  [dooce effect « Magic Lantern Arts] Reference

In my day you had to understand your Gaussian distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Mistress Fire Sale: Part Deux] Reference

And this one is far, far away from being a Gaussian distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Blodget: Everything's Going To Zero] Reference

Also use some Gaussian blur on it to give it that inked in effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [MINI WARGAMING: The Revenge Of Scurv!] Reference

I have to make a randomized 2D area from various 2D Gaussian curves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Two Gaussian distributions with considerable overlap is more like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [You're conservative because you're such an unsavory person quite aside from your politics, right?] Reference

Who's the guy in the background reduced to a Gaussian smudge -- Kottke?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Design - Anil Dash] Reference

Geekman, cryptically: "A convolution of two Gaussians is still Gaussian.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

The smooth line was created using an approximately 50-year Gaussian filter.    From Wordnik.com.  [SST Adjustment #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

What I want is to be soft around the edges, like an early-nineties Gaussian blur.    From Wordnik.com.  [August « 2006 « martinis & mantras] Reference

And I do it without resorting once to those Gaussian bell curves Nassim despises so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Brenner: The Other Black Swan] Reference

The standard old fashioned way of writing a line element is with Gaussian coordinates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does Space Expand?] Reference

You identify some region, analogous to a Gaussian volume, you want to measure things in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

Now think of an imaginary sphere (Gaussian surface) enclosing this point at a distance r.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

Can you give me some more specifics on the ten year filter and the 25 year Gaussian filter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briffa's Tornetrask Reconstruction « Climate Audit] Reference

Normal-inverse Gaussian distribution, a notion in Statistics ger is shorthand for gerund ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces] Reference

Both signals have been tested with a Gaussian curve-fit to rule out terrestrial interference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Is it snowing where you are, Mr. Thiessen? | Station151] Reference

(Gotta love Figures 1 and 2: bell-shaped but non-Gaussian curves, with no numbers on the axes.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Rational Voters] Reference

Every face is a Gaussian blur, or miniaturised, like George Washington painted on a strand of hair.    From Wordnik.com.  ["How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?"] Reference

This mostly only matters for that high redshift bin, though, the others are much closer to Gaussian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Energy Has Long Been Dark-Energy-Like] Reference

We pretend we live in a Gaussian world of norms in which we can predict the future based on averages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Tomares, Typhoons and Terrorism] Reference

For the last time, he is NOT a Normal-inverse Gaussian DISTRIBUTION and he is not a gerund, @sshole ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces] Reference

In other words, there should be a fixed point (perhaps Gaussian) with finitely many relevant perturbations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The String Theory Backlash] Reference

Precise Gaussian distribution functions of maternal serum AFP and free bHCG for trisomy 21 (T21) biochemical screening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prenatal Diagnosis] Reference

For example, risk management is based on the premise that events in financial markets exhibit normal/Gaussian distributions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subprime failure and Prediction markets] Reference

If your measurement is described by a Gaussian, about 2/3 of the time it will lie within plus or minus one sigma of the peak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bump Hunting (Part 2)] Reference

Of course the only time you really need your risk controls is exactly when the results are abnormal, outside the Gaussian curve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Schram: Financial Crisis Worked Out Well for Goldman Sachs] Reference

If the Gaussian curvature is not everywhere zero, one cannot find such coordinates, and the intrinsic two-dimensional geometry is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [RELATIVITY] Reference

And we are assuming for purposes of misleadingly-precise quantification that each prediction follows a normal (Gaussian) distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Prediction Contest] Reference

I'm sure Ayman made this prediction using a brilliant model, factoring in innumerable variables, all with nice Gaussian distributions.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 on the 4th] Reference

This is accomplished by transmitting a narrowband Gaussian noise signal, with a deviation of +/- 1.023 MHz, on the L1 GPS frequency itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives] Reference