RBF_INTERP_2D
Radial Basis Function Interpolation in 2D


RBF_INTERP_2D is a Python library which defines and evaluates radial basis function (RBF) interpolants to 2D data.

A radial basis interpolant is a useful, but expensive, technique for definining a smooth function which interpolates a set of function values specified at an arbitrary set of data points.

Given nd multidimensional points xd with function values fd, and a basis function phi(r), the form of the interpolant is

       f(x) = sum ( 1 <= i <= nd ) w(i) * phi(||x-xd(i)||)
      
where the weights w have been precomputed by solving
        sum ( 1 <= i <= nd ) w(i) * phi(||xd(j)-xd(i)||) = fd(j)
      

Although the technique is generally applied in a multidimensional setting, in this directory we look specifically at the case involving 2D data. This allows us to easily plot and compare the various results.

Four families of radial basis functions are provided.

Each uses a "scale factor" r0, whose value is recommended to be greater than the minimal distance between points, and rather less than the maximal distance. Changing the value of r0 changes the shape of the interpolant function.

Licensing:

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

Languages:

RBF_INTERP_2D is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

PADUA, a Python library which returns the points and weights for Padu sets, useful for interpolation in 2D.

PWL_INTERP_2D, a Python library which evaluates a piecewise linear interpolant to data defined on a regular 2D grid.

R8LIB, a Python library which contains many utility routines, using double precision real (R8) arithmetic.

RBF_INTERP_1D, a Python library which defines and evaluates radial basis function (RBF) interpolants to 1D data.

TEST_INTERP_2D, a Python library which defines test problems for interpolation of data z(x,y) of a 2D argument.

Reference:

  1. Richard Franke,
    Scattered Data Interpolation: Tests of Some Methods,
    Mathematics of Computation,
    Volume 38, Number 157, January 1982, pages 181-200.
  2. William Press, Brian Flannery, Saul Teukolsky, William Vetterling,
    Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing,
    Third Edition,
    Cambridge University Press, 2007,
    ISBN13: 978-0-521-88068-8,
    LC: QA297.N866.

Source Code:

The test program makes a number of plots.

You can go up one level to the Python source codes.


Last modified on 01 July 2018.