Hi All,
I am implementing a function which uses 2D interpolation. I am using
spline2dbuildbicubicv. Regarding the example for the spline2d_bicubic interpolation presented in the reference manual, I suggest a little change. The values presented in the manual/website (as example of results obtained for the given case) are in fact those which are obtained using
spline2dbuildbicubicv. However, a simple and quick look at the function [ f(x,y)=x^2+2*y^2 ], shows that the "expected" result for the function is far from correct (a huge error is obtained for the point), whereas but for the derivatives the results presented are OK. This could be misleading as to the applicability / suitability of the function. I reckon there were valid reasons to give an example which intentionally produces a wrong interpolation result. However, I reckon this example could be improved by adding just some few additional grid points, and then the results calculated by the interpolation function are almost exactly to those expected from the analytical solution. I suggest to incorporate a more accurate example, like the one I show below, to indicate the power of the
spline2dbuildbicubicv routine.
Code:
// Example
//
// We use bilinear spline to interpolate f(x,y)=x^2+2*y^2 sampled
// at (x,y) from [0.0, 0.5, 1.0,2.25] X [0.0, 1.0, 1.2].
//
real_1d_array x = "[0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.25]";
real_1d_array y = "[0.0, 1.0, 1.2]";
real_1d_array f =
"[0.00,0.25,1.00,5.0625,2.00,2.25,3.00,7.0625,2.88,3.13,3.88,7.9425]";
spline2dinterpolant ss;
// build spline
spline2dbuildbicubicv(x, 4, y, 3, f, 1, ss);
double vx, vy, v, dx, dy, dxy;
// calculate S(0.25,0.50)
vx = 0.25;
vy = 0.50;
v = spline2dcalc(ss, vx, vy);
printf("%.4f\n", double(v)); // EXPECTED: 0.5625
// calculate derivatives
spline2ddiff(ss, vx, vy, v, dx, dy, dxy);
printf("%.4f\n", double(v)); // EXPECTED: 0.5625
printf("%.4f\n", double(dx)); // EXPECTED: 0.5000
printf("%.4f\n", double(dy)); // EXPECTED: 2.0000
// calculate S(0.35,0.84)
vx = 0.35;
vy = 0.84;
v = spline2dcalc(ss, vx, vy);
printf("%.4f\n", double(v)); // EXPECTED: 1.5337
// calculate derivatives
spline2ddiff(ss, vx, vy, v, dx, dy, dxy);
printf("%.4f\n", double(v)); // EXPECTED: 1.5337
printf("%.4f\n", double(dx)); // EXPECTED: 0.7000
printf("%.4f\n", double(dy)); // EXPECTED: 3.3600
In any case, I also want to say a big thank you to the ALGLIB code developers for their superb job.
Cheers,
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