Without blur or threshold, some blur but a threshold at 0, and finally some blur and threshold applied.

Sam is a PhD student at Durham Univeristy working on structures in the solar wind. His pastimes include pestering Clare about Linux and making Adam feel old. Seriously, who remembers the 80s?
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