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I was telling a friend about Bloom filters and he'd never looked into them, because he'd assumed from the name that they were some kind of screen space shader.
by m12k 6y ago
I was telling a friend about Bloom filters and he'd never looked into them, because he'd assumed from the name that they were some kind of screen space shader.
- Izkata 6y agoFor a long time I thought the algorithm or data structure used by it had some sort of metaphorical relationship to a flower blooming.
- sangnoir 6y agoHe wasn't assuming - there are Bloom shaders[1] are an item in Computer Graphics, but at least the name has intrinsic logic ("light bloom") 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect)