> philosophically, i agree with with daniel that the name 'Harmonic' > requires a spring constant. > to make everybody happy, i would propose a new name for functions > that call the harmonic functions, but have spatial parameters as an > input. for example LogGauss, LogUpperDistanceGauss or whatever you > agree with. > is anybody be willing to contribute something like that to the > kernel (i am an official application guy, so the kernel is 'tabu' > for me)? i think the current workaround, i.e. introducing scaling > parameters through the back-door, is a bit unsatisfactory and will > confuse most users. I agree that adding a new set of scoring functions in the most satisfactory response. There is still the question of whether we should use straight standard deviation (so the energy is simply delta^2/ (2*sigma^2)) or have scaling factors as in the old harmonic.