Re: Data interpolation
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- Subject: [mg96247] Re: Data interpolation
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:50:41 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gmp11b$c6r$1@smc.vnet.net>
hemanth,
ListInterpolation will do what you want nicely.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Feb 9, 12:37 pm, hemanth korrapati <hemanthkorrap... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some 3D point data acquired through a laser range finder. The
> data is sparse. I need to construct a height field out of this data
> and as a part of this i have to interpolate heights at some locations
> {x,y} where the actual data is not available.
> I want to use B-splines. But it seems that B-splines require uniformly
> distributed control points, which is not the case with my data.
> My data cannot form a uniform table which is required by the
> BSplineSurface function if I sort my data.
>
> for some data i got the following error:
> Interpolation::indim: The coordinates do not lie on a structured
> tensor product grid. >>
>
> So I started using the "ListDensityPlot" function which does a linear
> interpolation of the data. The interpolation is sufficiently good. But
> I would like to get an output consisting of list of tuples like
> {x,y,InterpolatedHeight} at the desired {x,y} locations. Right now I
> can only see the plot but cannot get the interpolated heights at
> desired locations({x,y}).
>
> Now I have three questions:
> 1) how do i make my data usable for splines in mathematica ?
> 2) how do i get the interpolated values at desired {x,y} using
> "ListDensityPlot" function ?
> 3) Is there a better way other than the above two methods to
> interpolate the missing data ?
>
> Thank you