  The action and topological charge are used to determine the relative rates of
standard cooling and smearing algorithms in pure SU(3)-color gauge theory. We
consider representative gauge field configurations on $16^3\times 32$ lattices
at $\beta=5.70$ and $24^3\times 36$ lattices at $\beta=6.00$. We find the
relative rate of variation in the action and topological charge under various
algorithms may be succinctly described in terms of simple formulae. The results
are in accord with recent suggestions from fat-link perturbation theory.
