Optimization of parameters for curve interpolation by cubic splines (Q548318)

In the recent years different models of a curve have been developed.These techniques have many applications in CAD, CAGD and Earth Sciences. The authors propose a variational method that consists of minimizing a suitable functional from a Lagrange data set in a parametric space of cubic spline functions. They study an optimization interpolation method of curves in order to obtain a pleasing shape. By minimizing a quadratic functional that contains some terms associated with Sobolev seminorms, they obtain a new function, called ``parametric interpolating cubic spline''. They study some characterizations of this function and they express it as a linear combination of the basis functions of the parametric space of cubic splines. In Section 2 the authors recall some preliminaries and notations. Section 3 is devoted to stating an interpolation problem with a unique solution (Theorem 4), called ``parametric interpolating cubic spline on \(\mathbb R\)''. This parametric interpolating cubic spline is characterized in Theorem 5. Section 4 contains the computation of the interpolating cubic spline in practice. In Section 5 a convergence property of the parametric interpolation cubic spline is established (Theorem 9). Section 6 is devoted to optimize the parameter values by an approximation method while Section 7 contains numerical and graphical examples.