Re: interpolating f(x,y) from evaluation
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- Subject: [mg8658] Re: [mg8599] interpolating f(x,y) from evaluation
- From: Allan Hayes <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 04:11:09 -0400
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"K. Nikolaj Berntsen" <knb at _nospam_bkm.dtu.dk>
[mg8599] interpolating f(x,y) from evaluation
writes
> I want to generate an interpolatingfunction-like object for a
> complicated function of several variables ....
> I tried:
>
> Interpolation[Table[{f[i,j].i.j},{i,3},{j,3}]]
>
> but it did not work.
Nikolaj:
I may not be understanding your quastion but
1. the dots in f[i,j].i.j seem odd.
2. assuming that you want to interpolate data giving values f[i,j]
at i,j with i and j ranging over 1 to 3 then you need to supply the
data in the form
{{1,1,f[1,1]},{1,2,f[1,2]}, ..}
(the order of main list is unimportant, {{1,2,f[1,2]},{1,1,f[1,1]},
..} will do just as well)
However with Table get
In[1]:= Table[{i,j,f[i,j]},{i,3},{j,3}]
Out[1]=
{{{1,1,f[1,1]},{1,2,f[1,2]},{1,3,f[1,3]}},{{2,1,f[2,1]},{2,2,f[2,2]},
{2,3,f[2,3]}},{{3,1,f[3,1]},{3,2,f[3,2]},{3,3,f[3,3]}}}
which is not of form expected. We need to remove some of the brackets.
In[2]:= data = Flatten[%,1] (* the 1 stops the flattening at level 1*)
Out[2]=
{{1,1,f[1,1]},{1,2,f[1,2]},{1,3,f[1,3]},{2,1,f[2,1]},{2,2,f[2,2]},{2,3,f[2,3]},{3,1,f[3,1]},{3,2,f[3,2]},{3,3,f[3,3]}}
Now define f.
In[3]:= f[i_,j_]:= i-j
The values of f are now numeric.
In[4]:= data
Out[4]=
{{1,1,0},{1,2,-1},{1,3,-2},{2,1,1},{2,2,0},{2,3,-1},{3,1,2},{3,2,1},
{3,3,0}}
Do the interpolation
In[5]:= intf = Interpolation[data]
Interpolation::"inhr":
"Requested order is too high; order has been reduced to {2,2}."
Out[5]=
InterpolatingFunction[{{1,3},{1,3}},"<>"]
The message simply says that with only 3 data points each way, it
cannot do an order {3,3} interpolation (the default), and has
instead done an order {2,2} one (you can set this order via the
option InterpolationOrder).
The intf works as expected
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