"voxel" (volumetric pixel) is a standard and specific term which
should not be changed to the more generic "volume" in places where
it refers to individual, or collections of individual, 3D cells.
"volume" is more what's inside the faces of a 3D vector space, or
in describing 3D raster arrays in the general/abstract sense
(which many of the changes in r48435 seem to be, but I think it is
useful to introduce the voxel term there as it makes the
association clear, and there are limited chances to introduce the
term).
"voxel" (volumetric pixel) is a standard and specific term which
should not be changed to the more generic "volume" in places where
it refers to individual, or collections of individual, 3D cells.
"volume" is more what's inside the faces of a 3D vector space, or
in describing 3D raster arrays in the general/abstract sense
(which many of the changes in r48435 seem to be, but I think it is
useful to introduce the voxel term there as it makes the
association clear, and there are limited chances to introduce the
term).
there are plenty of places, where "volume" is used instead of "voxel".
Task for wider discussion, the goal would be to use one term in the
manual pages instead of mixing many. I would prefer "3D raster map or
data" over volume or voxel. "Voxel" is just picture element (as
"pixel" for 2D raster data).
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
2011/9/24 Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>:
re. r48435
"voxel" (volumetric pixel) is a standard and specific term which
should not be changed to the more generic "volume" in places where
it refers to individual, or collections of individual, 3D cells.
"volume" is more what's inside the faces of a 3D vector space, or
in describing 3D raster arrays in the general/abstract sense
(which many of the changes in r48435 seem to be, but I think it is
useful to introduce the voxel term there as it makes the
association clear, and there are limited chances to introduce the
term).
there are plenty of places, where "volume" is used instead of "voxel".
Task for wider discussion, the goal would be to use one term in the
manual pages instead of mixing many. I would prefer "3D raster map or
data" over volume or voxel. "Voxel" is just picture element (as
"pixel" for 2D raster data).
For the sake of being found when folks are searching for it,
some level of mixing will be needed to illustrate that voxel and
raster volume is meant to be the same.
Remember that we (will) have vector volumes, too, And r.volume is
also there. So technically voxel will be more clear in many places
with respect to volume.