Quasi-interpolation projectors for box splines (Q950191)

The authors study local box spline quasi-interpolation operators which reproduce not only polynomials but also the cardinal spline space spanned by the box spline shifts. If the shifts of the given box spline are linearly independent, they extend the technique of \textit{B.-G. Lee, T. Lyche}, and \textit{K. Mørken} [Some examples of quasi-interpolants constructed from local spline projectors. Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000, Vanderbilt Univ.\ Press, Nashville, TN, 243--252 (2001; Zbl 0989.65009)] to construct two types of such quasi-interpolation projectors: based on inner products and on point evaluations. Several concrete examples on a three-direction mesh in the plane are detailed. The absence of the linear independence condition for the Zwart-Powell element is proved to lead to non-existence of such local quasi-interpolation projectors.