gaaclarke 9fef46c3c8 [Impeller] blur: drop eighth downsample barrier (flutter/engine#50405)
issue: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/142990

I pushed this value as low as I dared to go and ended up with a kernel
size of 41 (radius 20). This means the range of sigma ~60 to ~70 will
now be 1/16th scalar instead of 1/8th.

Here is the new downsample rate versus sigma on a 2x display.

## before
<img width="903" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-06 at 10 28 58 AM"
src="https://github.com/flutter/engine/assets/30870216/f94896d3-fe1c-40e5-8ff4-d50bafbd0b5e">

## after
<img width="901" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-06 at 10 26 49 AM"
src="https://github.com/flutter/engine/assets/30870216/bc5cced7-b8c4-4597-9dd4-c460b966176b">


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