Elastic splines. II. Unicity of optimal s-curves and curvature continuity

DOI10.1007/S00365-017-9414-2MaRDI QIDQ2631952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael J. Johnson, Albert Borbély

Publication date 16 May 2019

Published in Constructive Approximation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00365-017-9414-2

zbMATH Keywords

bending energycurve fittingelasticainterpolationnonlinear splinespline

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interpolation in approximation theory (41A05) Spline approximation (41A15) Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17)

Review text

Interpolating curves or surfaces or higher-dimensional objects with minimal bending energy are important issues in numerical analysis. Often, research is carried out about the existence and possibly uniqueness of such interpolants. Many approaches have been tried and tested and several of the known approaches use energy-minimising interpolants using for example so-called radial basis functions. The method in this article uses data in the complex plane where curves that interpolate these data and have minimal bending energy are sought. Existence has been established for so-called s-curves, and now the authors have an additional condition restricting the angles of the s-curves. A sufficient condition is found for these curves to exist and to be continuous in curvature. An optimal upper bound of approximately 37 degrees has been identified too for the mentioned angles.

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