
This image shows tfBlur activated on the right-hand terrain.
This increases the radius of the strength of the Blur filter, smoothening out transitions in the terrain.
Larger values will take longer to calculate.
![tfblur002[radius].png](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/e05bd158-fbb4-4ee8-88bc-3a3f2265893a/tfblur002radius.png)
These three terrains have Mode set to Box, with an increasing Radius value, driving an increasing amount of blurring.
There are five different Mode settings of tfBlur: Box (the default), Gauss, Median, Gauss, fixed 3x3 and Gauss, fixed 5x5.
![tfblur003[modes1].png](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/283cadeb-db55-4765-8fde-76813c04c6fa/tfblur003modes1.png)
Both terrains in this image have a Radius of 3. The left-hand terrain has a Mode setting of Box, whereas the Gauss setting on the right gives an increase in blur quality, while preserving finer details.
This is the default; the fastest Mode setting.
A slower Mode setting, but Gauss is much better quality and will give smoother results.