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Strange name, it refers to the way a camera lens blurs out-of-focus objects (especially highlights) into a disc shape [1]. I was expecting an image processing l

by blt 11y ago

Strange name, it refers to the way a camera lens blurs out-of-focus objects (especially highlights) into a disc shape [1]. I was expecting an image processing library. Bokeh is widely discussed by photography equipment aficionados as one of the main distinguishing traits of different lens designs besides sharpness, distortion, etc. edit: maybe it is an allusion to bubble plots? [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=bokeh&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=bokeh&tbm=isch

birdsarah 11y ago
i believe the idea behind the name is that bokeh (python) is to data viz what bokeh is to photography - its a tool that brings the important data into focus.....
- dmoy 11y ago
  bokeh by definition is talking about the out of focus stuff, which is arguably the less important part of a shot.
  - andrepd 11y ago
    Which brings in focus elements into sharper attention.
    - skeletonjelly 11y ago
      And a photo that is entirely bokeh? http://i.imgur.com/siLB9C3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/siLB9C3.jpg
pwang 11y ago
In the "Technical Vision" part of our docs, I speak to this a little bit: http://bokehplots.com/pages/technical-vision.html http://bokehplots.com/pages/technical-vision.html A very large part of the vision is that we want to support accurate and useful visualization on large datasets. This is now encapsulated in the Datashader library (although it plays well with Bokeh itself): https://github.com/bokeh/datashader https://github.com/bokeh/datashader If you are interested in this, we just did a webinar this week on Datashader, and demonstrate how to easily visualize billions of points through the browser, in a few seconds, on a single machine: https://continuum-analytics.wistia.com/medias/8zu9idwoym?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvajNZKXonjHpfsX57ukuWaazlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4AT8ZnI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSbjCMbhuzbgLUxk%3D https://continuum-analytics.wistia.com/medias/8zu9idwoym?mkt...

by blt 11y ago

birdsarah 11y ago

i believe the idea behind the name is that bokeh (python) is to data viz what bokeh is to photography - its a tool that brings the important data into focus.....

dmoy 11y ago
bokeh by definition is talking about the out of focus stuff, which is arguably the less important part of a shot.
- andrepd 11y ago
  Which brings in focus elements into sharper attention.
  - skeletonjelly 11y ago
    And a photo that is entirely bokeh? http://i.imgur.com/siLB9C3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/siLB9C3.jpg

pwang 11y ago

In the "Technical Vision" part of our docs, I speak to this a little bit: http://bokehplots.com/pages/technical-vision.html http://bokehplots.com/pages/technical-vision.html A very large part of the vision is that we want to support accurate and useful visualization on large datasets. This is now encapsulated in the Datashader library (although it plays well with Bokeh itself): https://github.com/bokeh/datashader https://github.com/bokeh/datashader If you are interested in this, we just did a webinar this week on Datashader, and demonstrate how to easily visualize billions of points through the browser, in a few seconds, on a single machine: https://continuum-analytics.wistia.com/medias/8zu9idwoym?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvajNZKXonjHpfsX57ukuWaazlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4AT8ZnI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFSbjCMbhuzbgLUxk%3D https://continuum-analytics.wistia.com/medias/8zu9idwoym?mkt...