Polar forms and quadratic spline quasi-interpolants on Powell-Sabin partitions (Q1012242)

The authors propose the Powell-Sabin B-spline representation of quadratic polynomials or splines in terms of their polar forms and use this representation to construct several differential or discrete quasi-interpolants which have an optimal approximation order. Also, some numerical tests for the proposed approach are given. The applicability of this method works on many schemes of approximation involving values and/or derivatives of a given function.