@davidaugust @ai6yr @trevorparker What filter? It did some awfully slop-looking things to your image. Are you sure your filter isn't itself a bit sloppy?
On edit: The more I look, I'm increasingly convinced your filter *does* sloppify. It's introducing details that aren't in the original, and not just like visual anomalies. I mean look at how it "filtered" the tool in the far background that has no discernible detail. Or look at the snips in the fore. Same story, the "filtered" version has detail that does not exist in the original.
Your filter is not just transforming image information.