[Insight-developers] ImageIO Streaming

[Luis Ibanez]

Thanks all for your feedback on the method naming.


It seems that we have a winner:


    CalculateStreamableReadRegionFromRequestedRegion()
    ^^^^^^^^^          ^^^^

and its homologous

    CalculateStreamableWriteRegionFromRequestedRegion()
    ^^^^^^^^^          ^^^^^


I'm changing now the names in the NAMIC Sandbox
ImageIOStreaming directory.


Just for the record, we will have a couple more chances
to rename the API while the paper goes through the IJ,
and while it is moved from the IJ to the ITK CVS repository.


In any case, it is great to reach consensus on the API early on.


    Thanks


      Luis


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Bill Lorensen wrote:
> I like Calculate better also.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On 7/4/07, *Douglas Alan* <douglas_alan at harvard.edu 
> <mailto:douglas_alan at harvard.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>      > Doug,
> 
>      > There is a list of all ITK method names at:
> 
>      > http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Doxygen/html/functions.html
> 
>      > Compute is fairly popular as is Calculate.
> 
>     Okay, well I  guess anything but LateForDinner() is fine with me.
> 
>     If I were in a mood to be fussy, I'd prefer "Calculate" over "Compute"
>     in this instance, as my understanding of the word "compute" is that it
>     typically involves a lengthy calculation.  For instance, you might
>     either *calculate* or *compute* pi to a million significant digits, and
>     you might *calculate* pi to three digits, but you wouldn't *compute* pi
>     to three digits.  ("Determine" is more like "calculate" than "compute",
>     only it is even more general in that *determining* might not involve
>     any
>     math, while "calculate" would typically have that connotation -- at
>     least within the context of computer programs.)
> 
>     Lest one think that when I'm feeling fussy I make up my own
>     idiosyncratic distinctions, the American Heritage Dictionary seems to
>     agree with these distinctions:
> 
>        Synonyms: These verbs refer to the use of mathematical methods to
>        determine a result. Calculate, the most comprehensive, often implies
>        a relatively high level of abstraction or procedural complexity: The
>        astronomer calculated the planet's position.
> 
>        Compute applies to possibly lengthy arithmetic operations: computing
>        fees according to time spent.
> 
>     In any case, either "Compute" or "Calculate" works for me, with a
>     bit of
>     a preference towards "Calculate".
> 
>     |>oug
> 
>