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6 Aug 2024 16:58:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cubic spline question  
From: Kari Kivisalo
Date: 17 Feb 2002 03:04:19
Message: <3C6F644A.5E797131@engineer.com>
Mark Wagner wrote:

> 1) The function is constructed from a number of cubic polynomial pieces
> 2) The function is continuous
> 3) The first derivative of the function is continuous
> 4) The second derivative of the function is continuous
> 5) The function passes through all control points
> 6) The second derivative of the function is zero at the first and last
> control points

I can verify that cubic_spline in beta 11 meets these specifications.
Differences between splines through random 3D point sets produced by spline{}
and my lspline3 macro are too small to be noticed.


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Kari Kivisalo


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