Re: Question about interpolation and ListPlot3D
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- Subject: [mg1498] Re: [mg1460] Question about interpolation and ListPlot3D
- From: el at qua.crl.melco.co.jp (E. Lange)
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 02:16:13 -0400
> I have an array representing 3 dimensional points
> in a form of their Eucledean coordinates:
> arr = {{x1,y1,z1}, ... ,{xN,yN,zN}};
> (they were generated from a very smooth function).
>
> 1. I wish to generate a 3D plot of this surface (approximately),
> but format of ListPlot3D does not permit it, since my points
> {xi, yi} do not form a regular grid.
> How I can draw the surface?
>
> 2. I would like to find value of this function at another point
> {x, y}, the answer obviously depend on the way the function was
> interpolated (extrapolated), but I am interested in any way, as
> simple as possible.
> How to extract the Interpolating Function's value at {x, y} ?
>
> Zvi Wiener
> zwiener at lehman.com
For a simple, crude approximation, you might want to have a look at the
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>From: el at qua.crl.melco.co.jp (E. Lange)
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> There is a rectangular plot of land, several acres in size, which is
> contaminated by a single hazardous waste. We have some chemical
> measurements of the concentation of the waste in the soils at N randomly
> spaced points -- these points are NOT on a grid.
>
> From other information about the deposition of the waste, we know that the
> function
>
> concentration( x, y )
>
> is well behaved and smoothly varying.....
>
> So, I want to use a 2D InterpolationFunction in Mma to model the
You might try a simple interpolation using radial basis functions:
data = Table[Random[], {10}, {3}]
c = 5
Transpose[data][[3]] . # / Plus @@ # & [
E^(-c^2((x-#[[1]])^2 + (y-#[[2]])^2))& /@ data ]
Plot3D[%, {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}]
The parameter c adjusts the `stiffness' of the interpolation.
For c = 0, the interpolation result is the average concentration of the
waste. For c-->Infinity, the interpolation result is the concentration
at the closest measurement point. You can also try to use other basis
functions, such as 1/d^c instead of E^(-c^2 d), or incorporate
knowledge about the physics of the problem.
In readable notation:
InterpolationRBF[data_, c_][x_, y_] :=
Module[{radial},
radial = Table[ E^(-c^2 (
(x - data[[i, 1]])^2 + (y - data[[i, 2]])^2) ),
{i, Length[data]} ];
Transpose[data][[3]] . radial / Apply[Plus, radial]
]
f = InterpolationRBF[data, c];
Show[ Plot3D[f[x, y], {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}],
Graphics3D[Point /@ data] ]
Eberhard Lange
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