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- From: dzk@cs.brown.edu (Danny Keren)
- Subject: Re: What is a spline?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.010530.2818@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <16863BC9B.N020BA@tamvm1.tamu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 01:05:30 GMT
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- <16863BC9B.N020BA@tamvm1.tamu.edu> N020BA@tamvm1.tamu.edu writes:
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- # What is a spline? Reply either by E-mail or to the net. Thank you very
- #much!
-
- There are many kinds of splines. Usually, it means a function that is
- piecewise polynomial (meaning its a different polynomial over different
- patches of the region its defined above) which is twice differentiable
- (which means the different polynomials "glue" nicely over the boundaries
- of the patches). There are, however, "thin plate splines" which are
- used for interpolation in Computer Vision and other areas, which
- don't have any simple analytic form.
-
- This is really a huge topic. A good reference is "A practical guide
- to splines", by De-Boor, but no single book can possibly cover
- everything.
-
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- -Danny Keren.
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