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Re: Interpolation in the manual
From: |
Søren Hauberg |
Subject: |
Re: Interpolation in the manual |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:41:38 +0200 |
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John W. Eaton skrev:
On 28-Aug-2007, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| I've found some time to have a look at the chapter on polynomials.
| This chapter currently contains some functions for polynomial
| interpolation. More specifically
| * polyfit
| * ppval
| * mkpp
| * unmkpp
| Should these functions rather e described in the chapter on
| interpolation? Also, I see that the geometry chapter contains a section
| called "Interpolation on Scattered Data" that describes the 'griddata*'
| functions. Should these be in the interpolation chapter?
I think they should stay where they are and we should add a note in
the interpolation chapter that points to the polynomial and geometry
functions.
Something like the attached?
Index: doc/interpreter/interp.txi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/octave/doc/interpreter/interp.txi,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 interp.txi
--- doc/interpreter/interp.txi 24 Jun 2007 21:37:08 -0000 1.7
+++ doc/interpreter/interp.txi 28 Aug 2007 21:40:52 -0000
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
@node One-dimensional Interpolation
@section One-dimensional Interpolation
+Octave supports several methods for one-dimensional interpolation, most
+of which are described in this section. @ref{Polynomial Interpolation}
+and @ref{Interpolation on Scattered Data} describes further methods.
+
@DOCSTRING(interp1)
There are some important differences between the various interpolation
@@ -119,7 +123,8 @@
@section Multi-dimensional Interpolation
There are three multi-dimensional interpolation function in Octave, with
-similar capabilities.
+similar capabilities. Methods using Delaunay tessellation are described
+in @ref{Interpolation on Scattered Data}.
@DOCSTRING(interp2)