Blur, Blurry, Blurring, Blurred or Blurr, may refer to:

Optics and images

Bokeh In photography, bokeh ( or ; ) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in out-of-focus parts of an image, whether foreground or background or both. It is created by using a wide aperture lens. Some photographers incorrectly restr ...

, the aesthetic quality of the out-of-focus parts of an image *

Box blur A box blur (also known as a box linear filter) is a spatial domain linear filter in which each pixel in the resulting image has a value equal to the average value of its neighboring pixels in the input image. It is a form of low-pass ("blurring") ...

, a graphic-art effect *

Deblurring Deblurring is the process of removing blurring artifacts from images. Deblurring recovers a sharp image ''S'' from a blurred image ''B'', where ''S'' is convolved with ''K'' (the blur kernel) to generate ''B''. Mathematically, this can be repre ...

, process of removing blurring artifacts from images *

Defocus aberration In optics, defocus is the aberration in which an image is simply out of focus. This aberration is familiar to anyone who has used a camera, videocamera, microscope, telescope, or binoculars. Optically, defocus refers to a translation of the ...

, blurring of an image due to incorrect focus *

Fogging (censorship) Fogging, also known as blurring, is used for censorship or privacy. A visual area of a picture or movie is blurred to obscure it from sight. This form of censorship is used for sexually related images/scenes, hiding genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, ...

, censored blurring *

Gaussian blur In image processing, a Gaussian blur (also known as Gaussian smoothing) is the result of blurring an image by a Gaussian function (named after mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss). It is a widely used effect in graphics software, ...

, a graphic-art effect *

Motion blur Motion blur is the apparent streaking of moving objects in a photograph or a sequence of frames, such as a film or animation. It results when the image being recorded changes during the recording of a single exposure, due to rapid movement or l ...

, blurring of an image due to movement of the subject or imaging system

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Red Blue Blur Clark Joseph Kent is a fictional character and the main protagonist on The WB/ CW television series ''Smallville''. The character of Clark Kent, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938 as the civilian persona of DC ...

, or The Blur, an alternate identity for Clark Kent in ''Smallville'' * The Atlanta Blur or The Blur, a character in the Marvel MAX comic Supreme Power * Blurr (Transformers), ''Transformers'' fictional robot superheroes

Films

* ''Blurred'' (film), a 2002 Australian film * ''Blurs'' (film), a 2011 Croatian film * ''

Blurr ''Blurr'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language horror thriller film. It has been directed by Ajay Bahl and jointly produced by Zee Studios, Outsiders Films and Echelon Productions. The film features Taapsee Pannu and Gulshan Devaiah in the leadi ...

'', a 2022 Indian horror thriller film by Ajay Bahl

Music

Blur (band) Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1988. The band consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James, and drummer Dave Rowntree. Their debut album, ''Leisure'' (1991), incorporated the sounds of Mad ...

, an English rock band

Albums

* ''Blur'' (Blur album), a 1997 eponymous album by the band Blur * '' Blur: The Best Of'', a 2000 eponymous album by the band Blur * ''Blur'' (Rachael Lampa album), a 2002 album by Rachael Lampa * Blurr (EP), a 1993 EP by Unwritten Law; see ''Unwritten Law'' discography

Songs

* "Blur", a song by Britney Spears from the album ''

Circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicy ...

'' * "Blur", a song by Imagine Dragons from the album ''

Mercury – Acts 1 & 2 ''Mercury – Acts 1 & 2'' is the full fifth studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons, released through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records. It is a double album consisting of 32 tracks, with the first half, '' Mercury – Act 1'' ...

'' * "Blur", a song by

Johnny Orlando John Vincent Orlando (born January 24, 2003) is a Canadian singer and actor. He first received attention on social media by posting covers of pop songs by artists such as Austin Mahone, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Shawn Mendes to ...

* "Blur", a song by MØ from the album ''

Forever Neverland ''Forever Neverland'' is the second studio album by Danish singer and songwriter MØ. It was released on 19 October 2018 via Chess Club Records, RCA Victor, and Columbia Records. It is her first full-length release since her debut studio album ...

'' * "Blur", a song by Wage War from the album '' Stigma'' * "Blur", a song by We Came As Romans from their self-titled album * "Blur", a song by Wretch 32, featured on the soundtrack of ''

FIFA 13 ''FIFA 13 ''is a Association football, football Simulation video game, simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label. The game was released in late September 2012 in most regions ...

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Blurry "Blurry" is a song by American rock band Puddle of Mudd. It was released on October 16, 2001, as the second single from the band's debut album '' Come Clean'' (2001). It was 2002's most successful rock song in the United States, topping the ''Bi ...

", a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd from the album ''Come Clean'' * "Blurry" (Stand Atlantic song), a 2020 song by Stand Atlantic from the album ''Pink Elephant'' * "Blurry (Out of Place)", a song by Crown the Empire from the album ''

Sudden Sky ''Sudden Sky'' is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band Crown the Empire. It was released on July 19, 2019 through Rise Records and was produced by Drew Fulk. It is the band's first album not to feature vocalist Dave Escamilla sinc ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Blur'' (video game), a 2010 arcade racing game * ''Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload'', a book by journalists

Tom Rosenstiel Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic, researcher and academic. He is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He was ...

and

Bill Kovach Bill Kovach (, born 1932) is an American journalist, former Washington bureau chief of ''The New York Times'', former editor of the '' Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', and co-author of the book ''The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should ...

* The Blur, a member of

DP 7 ''D.P. 7'' is a comic book ongoing series, series published by Marvel Comics as part of its New Universe imprint (trade name), imprint. It ran for 32 issues and an ''Annual'' (January 1987), which were published from 1986 in comics, 1986 to 1989 ...

, part of Marvel Comics' New Universe line

Other uses

* Blur, in computing, a loss of

focus Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in East Australia Film *Focus (2001 film), ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based on the Arthur Miller novel *Focus (2015 ...

Blur (browser extension) IronVest (formerly Abine Blur and DoNotTrackMe)Blur trademark dilution Trademark dilution is a trademark law concept giving the owner of a famous trademark standing to forbid others from using that mark in a way that would lessen its uniqueness. In most cases, trademark dilution involves an unauthorized use of anoth ...

* Blur Group, an online marketplace provider *

Blur Studio Blur Studio Inc. is an American visual effects and computer animation company which specializes in CGI visual effects, CGI animation, and CGI design. Located in Culver City, California, the studio has produced CGI-animated films, teasers and ad sp ...

, a graphics and video effects company