Box Blur number of passes is not controllable from Python

[bmharper]

One of the great features of Pillow-SIMD is it's iterative box blur, but the number of passes cannot be controlled from Python.

Am I missing something here?

[homm]

There are no good reasons for complicating the API. If you need only one pass (Box blur), there is separate filter for this. If you need Gaussian Blur, 3 passes is quite good approximation and doesn’t became better with more passes.

If you want something really strange, you can use low-level api and call im.box_blur and im.gaussian_blur with second argument, which number of passes.

[bmharper]

Thanks - so just to make sure - does this code end up inside ImagingGaussianBlur with passes = 3?

im = im.filter(ImageFilter.GaussianBlur(radius))

I guess that's fine - 3 passes is OK.

[homm]

Right.