In article <tlf89vcm9395bv5tg1oo3npqf4i08pve9n@4ax.com>,
 ABX <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote:

> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22proximity+means+distance%22
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22proximity+is+distance%22

Not sure what you expect these to turn up. A lack of results is not 
surprising, they are very badly formed search queries.

This is better:
http://www.google.com/search?q=proximity+definition


> I'm not english master. Not even advanced amateur. Can you provide me a
> reference to definition that proximity is distance? There is no 'distance' in
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=proximity

"The state, quality, sense, or fact of being near or next; closeness:"

Look up "closeness":
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=closeness

"immediate nearness"

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nearness

Nothing about being blurred, smoothed, or fuzzed out. It's all about 
distance, viewed as how near something is rather than how far it is.


> > If you did something like 
> > one of those, it was a proximity function
> > (...)
> > But it has nothing to do with proximity.
> 
> Hmmm. Two different opinions about the same usage of f_r().

For two different uses. One being a proximity function, the other being 
a weighting for convolution samples, in which case the most likely use 
is for proximity to the center of the convolution matrix, which is 
independant of the input data.

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