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Re: Integrating scattered data
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
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Re: Integrating scattered data |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:46:42 -0500 |
On 21/08/07, kensmith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007 09:27, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > I have a surface in some irregular domain of R^2 that I'm sampling at
> > scattered, unstructured points. I'd like to find the volume under
> > this surface.
>
> Do you know anything about how the surface gets from one place to the
> next?
What do you mean? No, I don't think I know that. They are scattered
points without any structure.
> Also, do you know what happens off the edges?
I don't understand your question, but no, I don't think I have any
special information about the surface around the edges.
> Things like Simpsons rule assume straight lines in how the curve goes
> from point to point. In effect, they are interpolating the points
> between using that rule.
I have heard of things like spline surfaces using tensor products or
something like that. And Simpson's rule assumes parabolas between
points, not straight lines. :-)
- Jordi G. H.
Re: Integrating scattered data, Thomas Shores, 2007/08/21