more like what doesn't it mean
August 26, 2015 7:37 PM Subscribe
What does "chaotic rasterizer ion of vectors" mean? I found it on a note with no other context.
Response by poster: Er, yes, it was actually in a text file called something like "notes" in a Documents folder (i.e. not saved anywhere special), but it was the only line in the file. Pretty much the equivalent of a post-it. I know the person who probably wrote it is a programmer.
posted by michaelh at 8:22 PM on August 26, 2015
posted by michaelh at 8:22 PM on August 26, 2015
Perhaps a random musing about building a ray-tracing engine. E.g. note to self "If I randomly (sic: chaotically) sample photon (sic: ion) vectors from the camera to the object, I can build a scalable ray-tracing engine."
posted by Static Vagabond at 8:35 PM on August 26, 2015
posted by Static Vagabond at 8:35 PM on August 26, 2015
Rasterisation
i work in geospatial
Raster data
Vector data
applies to other data representations as well.
if i wrote that note to myself, it would mean that whatever conversion algo was used had done a shitty job of it.
posted by j_curiouser at 9:24 PM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
i work in geospatial
Raster data
Vector data
applies to other data representations as well.
if i wrote that note to myself, it would mean that whatever conversion algo was used had done a shitty job of it.
posted by j_curiouser at 9:24 PM on August 26, 2015 [2 favorites]
Response by poster: Are you all saying it could have a typo or autocorrect problem, i.e. the actual phrase might be "chaotic rasterization of vectors"? Would that be referring to writing software to "paint" noisy versions of vector art?
posted by michaelh at 12:34 AM on August 27, 2015
posted by michaelh at 12:34 AM on August 27, 2015
Are you all saying it could have a typo or autocorrect problem, i.e. the actual phrase might be "chaotic rasterization of vectors"?
Most likely, because "chaotic rasterizer ion of vectors" is nonsense but "chaotic rasterization of vectors" looks like it might mean something, very possibly something like "software to "paint" noisy versions of vector art". Presumably this would involve converting the vectors to pixels (i.e. rasterising the vectors) in a chaotic fashion.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 2:29 AM on August 27, 2015
Most likely, because "chaotic rasterizer ion of vectors" is nonsense but "chaotic rasterization of vectors" looks like it might mean something, very possibly something like "software to "paint" noisy versions of vector art". Presumably this would involve converting the vectors to pixels (i.e. rasterising the vectors) in a chaotic fashion.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 2:29 AM on August 27, 2015
I just typed "rasterization" into my iPad and it autocorrected to "rasterizer ion".
posted by moonmilk at 3:56 AM on August 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by moonmilk at 3:56 AM on August 27, 2015 [3 favorites]
what j_curiouser says:
chaotic may just mean "bad", "unexpected", "unpredictable"
rasterizer ion is likely "rasterization"
of vectors is literally correct
in short: the rasterization process (converting from vectors to pixels) has a bug: it's producing shitty (chaotic) results.
posted by andrewcooke at 6:22 AM on August 27, 2015
chaotic may just mean "bad", "unexpected", "unpredictable"
rasterizer ion is likely "rasterization"
of vectors is literally correct
in short: the rasterization process (converting from vectors to pixels) has a bug: it's producing shitty (chaotic) results.
posted by andrewcooke at 6:22 AM on August 27, 2015
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"Rasterizer ion" is probably "rasterisation". Certainly that and vectors fit together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterisation
posted by intermod at 7:45 PM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]