Talk:Mollifier
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Oleg, thanks for correcting my silly mistake. I must have been really tired. - Gauge 04:57, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- You're welcome! :) It does look look confusing, if you expect something like
. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 07:09, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
In the end, it says you can create a smooth cutoff funtion from any set, but this is of course, not true. The set must be compact, otherwise what is this "distance from the set"...
[edit] Applications
The intro touches on applications of mollifiers: to create a sequence of smooth functions approximating a nonsmooth one. It doesn't go into much detail, though. Could someone add some example applications? Also, this seems closely related to scale space, although that uses a Gaussian kernel which doesn't have compact support. —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 01:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
