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another-davetoday at 12:58 PM1 replyview on HN

It's technically feasible to just draw all the individual dots but it doesn't necessarily convey the information better.

When individual points are drawn close together, they're hard to discern without zooming right in. Even with additive opacity, they max out quite quickly once a couple of dots overlap.


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mkjtoday at 1:11 PM

I think that's incorrect. Brains/eyes are good at looking for patterns.