Well, it isn't entirely simple, but for suitable distances, D can often be reverse engineered subject to various isometries like rotation and inversion that don't change distance.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Eastman <jeast...@narus.com> wrote: > Since the distance measure is reducing the [2] dimensionality of the Di and > Dj vectors with a scalar (aij), I don't see how to reconstruct D from A.