[pwang]

I think you are deliberately trying to misunderstand what is being done in this project.

It's not about what APIs are being used to render whatever. At that level of analysis, all that anybody is every doing, is just doing memcpy and bitblt. Rather, datashader provides a framework for applying semantically meaningful, mathematical transformations on datasets as they're being accumulated, as those accumulations are converted into aesthetic/geom primitives, and as those primitives are rendered into colors. It really is "renderman for data", along with arbitrary vertex/texture shaders, driven by a dynamic rasterizer that can use whatever bins in data-space (not merely physical pixels).

BTW "Out of core" does NOT come from raytracing; in fact its history in computing is a term for anything that exceeds physical memory. We use it all the time in scientific/HPC and data science because datasets are frequently much larger than available memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_memory_algorithm

[BubRoss]

I think you are misrepresenting what is being done in this project. People seem to like it. They say it has workflow refinements. That's great, but there isn't anything new being done in rendering here unless doing something trivial in a pointlessly complex way and renaming fundamental techniques counts as a breakthrough.

Focus on the workflow refinements, saying g there are rendering breakthroughs here is snake oil.