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Re: Re: Why the Interpolation function cannot make a serious of points be linked smoothly?

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• Subject: [mg28410] Re: [mg28374] Re: [mg28350] Why the Interpolation function cannot make a serious of points be linked smoothly?
• From: "Sherman Reed" <sherman.reed at worldnet.att.net>
• Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 03:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Earlier I had posted a reply that reduced the order of the Interpolation
function.

Today I show the use of the Spline function (<<Graphics`Spline`) right out
of the
Help Browser.

Show[Graphics[{Hue[0], Line[data1], GrayLevel[0], Spline[data1, Cubic]}],
  PlotRange -> All]

for both data1 and data2 (not shown).

The advantage of the spline function is that the derivatives are controlled
at the
data points. The difference between the two sets of data appear to be very
small.

Sherman C. Reed
sherman.reed at att.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sherman Reed" <sherman.reed at worldnet.att.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg28410] [mg28374] Re: [mg28350] Why the Interpolation function cannot make
a serious of points be linked smoothly?


> In my view the data is basically linear.  The default InterpolationOrder
is
> 3, which means a third order poly is used to connect the points.  This is
> overkill. Even a second order poly has some wild swings.  I tried an
> InterpolationOrder of 1, which did a better job.
>
> You might want to try using Fit for a linear curve.  It appears to be
pretty
> good, but does not go through the data points.
>
> Sherman C. Reed
> sherman.reed at att.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "liwen liwen" <gzgear at yahoo.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg28410] [mg28374] [mg28350] Why the Interpolation function cannot make a
serious of
> points be linked smoothly?
>
>
> > Dear friends;
> >
> > How are you!
> > Interpolation function is able to make a serious of
> > points to be linked smoothly,
> > but now I find the following Interpolation function is
> > not able to be linked
> > smoothly, what is the matter?
> >
> > data1 = {{0, 0}, {1.3, 1}, {2, 3}, {2.3, 5}, {5.678,
> > 7}, {7, 9}, {8, 12}, {12,
> >          18}};
> > data2 = {{0, 0}, {1.3, 1}, {2, 3}, {2.7, 5}, {5.678,
> > 7}, {7, 9}, {8, 12}, {12,
> >          18}};
> > f1 = Interpolation[data1];
> > f2 = Interpolation[data2];
> > g1 = Plot[f1[x], {x, 0, 12}];
> > g2 = Plot[f2[x], {x, 0, 12}];
> > Show[g1, g2]
> >
> > the data2 can be linked smoothly, but data1 not. I
> > just change the {2.7,5} to
> > {2.3,5}.
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
> > E-mail:  gzgear at yahoo.com
> >
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    • From: liwen liwen <gzgear@yahoo.com>