From 933ad6233db9950a69f4539007322e3389849ef7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Chmielowiec <philipchmielowiec@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:36:01 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] better markdown for rasterization

---
 notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/03-polygons.ipynb |  6 +++++-
 notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/04-points.ipynb   | 12 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/03-polygons.ipynb b/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/03-polygons.ipynb
index c107439b..85b6ce68 100644
--- a/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/03-polygons.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/03-polygons.ipynb
@@ -232,7 +232,11 @@
    "source": [
     "## Rasterized Polygon Plots\n",
     "\n",
-    "For larger datasets and for obtaining quicker visualizations, we can rasterize each polygon to obtain a Raster of our geometries.\n"
+    "Instead of plotting the geometry of each polygon directly, we can rasterize our set of polygons to obtain a raster plot.\n",
+    "\n",
+    ":::{remember}\n",
+    "A raster plot of any set of geometric elements (in this case Polygons) renders each data into a regularly shaped array as opposed to rendering each shape directly.\n",
+    ":::\n"
    ],
    "metadata": {
     "collapsed": false
diff --git a/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/04-points.ipynb b/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/04-points.ipynb
index 91ca7dc3..3a3ad456 100644
--- a/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/04-points.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/03-uxarray-vis/04-points.ipynb
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "source": [
-    "Since data variables are typically mapped to either nodes, edges, or faces, one can visualize these by using the data to shade the coordinate points of each element. \n"
+    "Since data variables are typically mapped to either nodes, edges, or faces, one can visualize these by using the data to shade the coordinate points of each element. \n",
+    "\n",
+    "This notebook showcases how to visualize data variables as points."
    ],
    "metadata": {
     "collapsed": false
@@ -98,7 +100,7 @@
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "source": [
-    "We can plot each shaded data point using the latitude and longitude of either the nodes, edge centers, or face centers. Since \"bottomDepth\" is a face-centered variable, it is plotted with the node coordinates."
+    "We can plot each shaded data point using the latitude and longitude of either the nodes, edge centers, or face centers. Since ``bottomDepth`` is a face-centered variable, it is plotted using the node coordinates (i.e. ``node_lon`` and ``node_lat``)"
    ],
    "metadata": {
     "collapsed": false
@@ -133,7 +135,11 @@
    "source": [
     "## Rasterized Point Plots\n",
     "\n",
-    "Instead of plotting each point, we can rasterize our set of points."
+    "Instead of plotting the geometry of each point directly, we can rasterize our set of points to obtain a raster plot.\n",
+    "\n",
+    ":::{remember}\n",
+    "A raster plot of any set of geometric elements (in this case Points) renders each data into a regularly shaped array as opposed to rendering each shape directly.\n",
+    ":::"
    ],
    "metadata": {
     "collapsed": false