I certainly do not know enough to determine how much of the improvement is due to simply sharpening vs. the SR, or what is a due to the combination, that sharpening alone couldn't achieve.

I do know the last 3-4 versions of the script make the GOUT, in my opinion, look better than other attempts that I have seen. I chuckled at the guy who said "this will look like shit" rather than g-force, because the other guy turned out to be quite wrong. g-force: you make some good points, but I am not sure that the claims that you take issue with are really being made. If it was "all" SR, I think this would have been completed in the first few pages, when the script was several lines long. But perhaps there are people who haven't been following along who could indeed get the wrong impression that this is all SR. (that said, you were obviously just called out on a post you made months ago and simply defending that).

Maybe Dre can try a version at some point that keeps the rest of his script, but with the SR plugin code omitted. Even if the SR effect turns out to be minimal/nonexistent, he should be proud of the balance that he has struck. The thread has shifted away from interest in the SR technique itself, and most of the focus now is just on how good the results are. Same as any other project thread here.