It's just alternating between sharpen and smoothen. Sharpen hallucinates new information. Smoothen diffuses and erases information. Thus there is this interplay

It's just alternating between sharpen and smoothen. Sharpen hallucinates new information. Smoothen diffuses and erases information. Thus there is this interplay with constant hallucinations that take place over previous ones. Mathematicians and biologists have a hammer, so everything looks like a nail.