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Not only is this not computer vision, but the image processing employed is quite naive and the results are poor. One need only move the Simplify slider all the way to the right on the default N/S America globe icon and then start inching it back to the left to see a solid example of this. I'm aware that I'm being very dismissive here, but the "it uses computer vision" marketing bs really grinds my gears.

It looks like it's just doing server-side http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/morphology/#basic

Hello massive diamond kernels.

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We took 'computer vision' out of the title above.

I am curious to know, does the HN software have an automatic trigger for comments that mention "title" or is it more a case of mods looking at the front page every now and then and if a comment about the title is sufficiently highly voted in a frontpaged post you look into it and make a decision?

The latter. I used to have an automatic trigger but it broke when I ported my client software from one obscure Lisp to another, and I haven't yet gotten it working again.

Basically we do cmd+f title a lot.

typically you would leave the large sizes as-is, the filters are mostly useful for the smaller sizes where you don't see the diamond kernel effect.

not sure why people so upset about the name, mathematical morphology is commonly used in computer vision. As far as marketing BS goes it's pretty tame compared to some of the stuff I've seen on hn.

> morphology is commonly used in computer vision

Loops are commonly used in computer vision. And yet here we are not calling loops computer vision.

> not sure why people so upset about the name

Learned people get upset when they see grandiose or otherwise erroneous claims about trivial things, regardless of the field, because it signals either bumbling naiveté or intent to deceive, and both are perceived as dangers to the community.

I feel like we're just arguing over semantics. I agree that "computer vision" is a slight stretch, but it's hardly malicious.

> bumbling naiveté or intent to deceive

maybe the real danger to the community is unfounded hostility :/

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