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Re: spline derivatives

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  • Subject: [mg39293] Re: spline derivatives
  • From: christopherpurcell <christopherpurcell at mac.com>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 04:51:58 -0500 (EST)
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The Interpolation routine can be differentiated, and it will provide 
similar capability (piecewise polynomial interpolation) as SplineFit. 
To handle self intersecting space curves you will need to interpolate 
on each parametric coordinate separately.


> I fitted a curve (data points)  with the function SpllineFit and found 
> even
> spaced points in the spline with SplineEvenSamplePoints function  
> (Murray,
> [mg37649])  but I do no know how to estimate the derivative in each 
> point.
>
> Thanks for your attention
>
> Eduardo



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