The illustrations are definitely the secret sauce that makes this so engaging and informative. I'd also like to see links to where I can learn more about particular topics online. For example:

> Or maybe you’ve wondered why we call it a Gaussian blur?

Nowhere is Carl Friedrich Gauss mentioned, which is unfortunate. This should really link to the Wikipedia entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur.

When you know the term gaussian (blur) it's trivial to do a Google search

Google does not return the best content.

It usually returns good enough content for me