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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Change the doc if you feel this is more appropriate, though for me
> lexically fuzz==dispersion...
The dispersion of something usually refers to a measure of the distance 
to the center of a distribution. "/radius/ of dispersion" is a common 
expression, "diameter of dispersion" is not, experimental errors are 
given as +/- error, and variance and stdDev in maths are clearly 
distances to the mean.
I updated the documentation.

>  (the old name, stDev, was actually not
> meaninfgul, it wasn't "standard deviation" at all).
Agreed. "Dispersion" is better than sdtDev, but still not perfect. The 
dispersion of particles is usually measured as a standard deviation...

> In the future, we should provide way to pass distribution object to
> makeCloud (uniform, normal, weibull), there seems to be demand for it
> already.
>   
Yes.

Ciao.

Bruno