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“Turn data into images” is a much better phrase than “rendering.” Anyone who is not intentionally being pedantic for dramatic effect would understand the purpos
by p49k 8y ago
“Turn data into images” is a much better phrase than “rendering.” Anyone who is not intentionally being pedantic for dramatic effect would understand the purpose of the product based on reading that phrase, whereas “Datashader: a renderer” is less clear and could refer to products with an entirely different scope/purpose.
Their product page is well-written and accurate. It sounds like you want them to purposely describe their product as something that is inferior to what it actually is.
- jbednar 8y agoIf you want one word, Datashader is a rasterizer. It takes data of many types (points, lines, grids, meshes) and creates a regular grid where each grid cell's value is a well defined function of the incoming data. Not sure anyone would be any happier with "rasterizer" than "renderer" or "shader" or any other single word...