Smooth natural neighbour interpolants over the whole domain

  • Authors:
  • Hisamoto Hiyoshi;Kokichi Sugihara

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Gunma University, Kiryu, Japan.;Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The natural neighbour interpolation is a potential interpolationmethod for multidimensional data. However, only globallyC1 interpolants have been known so far. In this paper wepropose a globally C2 interpolant, and write it in anexplicit form. When the data are supplied to the interpolant from athird-degree polynomial, the interpolant can reproduce thatpolynomial exactly. The idea used to derive the interpolant isapplicable to obtain a globally Cq interpolant for anarbitrary non-negative integer q. Hence, this paper gets rid of thecontinuity limitation of the natural neighbour interpolation, andthus leads it to a new research stage.