Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other

Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by quickthrower2 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:17PM (#24386905)

And conversely why are photoshop filters even called filters!

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by jldugger on Saturday September 05, 2020 @05:36PM (#24387046)

Presumably because these exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_filter

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by Trombone12 on Saturday September 05, 2020 @06:10PM (#24387253)

The point being made is that photoshop manipulates matrices and filters are circles made of translucent material you put on your camera; and in fact many of those photographic filters don't primarily filter light but rather distorts it in some desired fashion. "Transformations" would be much more accurate.

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by 317070 on Sunday September 06, 2020 @05:26AM (#24390111)

In signal processing, those transformations have always been named filters. It goes way back to the early 1900s

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Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other by magicalhippo on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:11PM (#24388446)

I always presumed it came from signal processing[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(signal_processing)

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