Gaussian PIL Image Filter

I could not see a gaussian filter in the python imaging library, but its simple enough to write one…

import ImageFilter
from PIL import Image
from numpy import *

def gaussian_grid(size = 5):
    """
    Create a square grid of integers of gaussian shape
    e.g. gaussian_grid() returns
    array([[ 1,  4,  7,  4,  1],
           [ 4, 20, 33, 20,  4],
           [ 7, 33, 55, 33,  7],
           [ 4, 20, 33, 20,  4],
           [ 1,  4,  7,  4,  1]])
    """
    m = size/2
    n = m+1  # remember python is 'upto' n in the range below
    x, y = mgrid[-m:n,-m:n]
    # multiply by a factor to get 1 in the corner of the grid
    # ie for a 5x5 grid   fac*exp(-0.5*(2**2 + 2**2)) = 1
    fac = exp(m**2)
    g = fac*exp(-0.5*(x**2 + y**2))
    return g.round().astype(int)

class GAUSSIAN(ImageFilter.BuiltinFilter):
    name = "Gaussian"
    gg = gaussian_grid().flatten().tolist()
    filterargs = (5,5), sum(gg), 0, tuple(gg)


im = Image.open('/home/rcjp/tmp/test.png')
im1 = im.filter(GAUSSIAN)
im1.save('/home/rcjp/tmp/testfiltered.png')