shepard_interp_1d

shepard_interp_1d, a Python code which defines and evaluates Shepard interpolants to 1D data, based on inverse distance weighting.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

shepard_interp_1d is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Richard Franke,
    Scattered Data Interpolation: Tests of Some Methods,
    Mathematics of Computation,
    Volume 38, Number 157, January 1982, pages 181-200.
  2. Donald Shepard,
    A two-dimensional interpolation function for irregularly spaced data,
    ACM '68: Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM National Conference,
    ACM, pages 517-524, 1969.

Source Code:

shepard_interp_1d_test01 plots the data and Shepard interpolants.

Last modified on 03 July 2015.