21 Dec
2009
21 Dec
'09
11:17 p.m.
On 12/22/09, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 22:37 +0100, Pierre-Antoine MARC wrote:
The SD sets the width of the gaussian. It is not that techy if you know what a gaussian is.
Unfortunately, a significant portion of our userbase is not familiar with that type of terminology. Thank you for the explanation though, it will be easier to come up with more user friendly labels now.
In late October I was demoing 0.47 and to-be-0.48 features at an exhibition. When it came to the Spray tool, I put my hand on my heart and said: "I'm sorry, guys, but I don't know what the hell half of those options mean". "No worries," - said a guy in the front row - "I'm chemist by contract. You don't scare me with Gaussian distribution."
Alexandre