[ImageJ-devel] Naming [was: Re: [fiji-devel] RegionOfInterestCursor considered misnamed]

[Andreas Maier]

Hi,

why not use the term "grid"?

Best,

Andreas

Am 11.10.2010 18:34, schrieb Grant B. Harris:
>  Stephan,
>
> "Domain" is appealing in that it can be interpreted broadly - images 
> and signals can "be in" the spatial domain, frequency domain, or 
> wavelet domain.  And it doesn't have any implied dimensionality 
> (unlike "space" which has some connotation of only 3-D).
>
> Also, I like the idea of a sub-interface called `Tensors' for a 
> discrete regular grid.
>
> - Grant
>
>
> On 10/11/2010 4:17 PM, Stephan Saalfeld wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I vote for interface "Tensor".
>>>
>>> The misnamed "imglib" is a tensor lib.
>>>
>>>
>>>  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor :
>>>
>>> "... tensors in general can be considered as a multidimensional array
>>> of numbers"
>>>
>> ... which is true for only the most basic concepts to be expressed by
>> the intended interface `Image'.  Already a sparsely sampled space is not
>> a tensor any more, neither is a 3d-scene description or a
>> hyper-spherical mask (actually anything that is not a box and discrete).
>> Yes, you can sample these Images in a discrete raster but you don't have
>> to.  Positionables in real space (Interpolators) are the most trivial
>> example.  The Iterator already does it's own magic.
>>
>> The true meaning of the interface Image is that it spans and limits a
>> function-space or domain, so we could call it `Function', `Space' or
>> `Domain', great for math-agnostic developers learning the API (though
>> not as horrible as LocalizableByDimCursor ;)).  `Tensors' could then be
>> a sub-interface that guarantees that the samples are on a discrete
>> regular grid of a box.
>>
>> I completely agree that it sucks to collide with java.awt.Image.
>> Besides, I am quite sure that, in the global Java namespace, there is
>> little room for non-colliding names except we call it a silly name.  I
>> am pro:
>>
>> Img (favorite), Domain (promising collisions), Space, Scene, Function
>> (best choice but promising collisions and missleading expectations).
>>
>> The most recent developments are tracked in the branch sampler-link
>> (which stems from sampler but got rid of the links...) where development
>> was recently stopped for too long time by the silly CellContainer bug
>> that came from master but I was searching in the changes...
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Stephan
>>
>>> Albert
>
> _______________________________________________
> ImageJ-devel mailing list
> ImageJ-devel at imagejdev.org
> http://imagejdev.org/mailman/listinfo/imagej-devel