Questions on the interpolation functions in Mathematica (Interpolation[], ListInterpolation[], FunctionInterpolation[], InterpolatingPolynomial[], etc.)
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Improved interpolation of mostly-structured 3d data
This question arose in response to a comment by Leonid to my answer for this question. He noted that for unstructured grids, Interpolation can only use ...
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How to fix broken InterpolatingFunction?
I have an InterpolatingFunction based on irregularly-gridded data, like this:
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Getting the interpolation function from a list plot
I have conducted a chemistry experiment and obtained a list of concentrations of a reactant against time. I plot a graph of this using Mathematica's ListPlot ...
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ListContourPlot interpolation screws up on concave set of data
I want to create ListContourPlots for sets of Data (from a physics simulation) given as Triplets {x, y, f(x, y)}. Certain parameter regions in the x-y-plane are ...
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interpolation of 3D data
I have a 3D surface given in data-points of the form ${x,y,z}$. What is the easiest way to get the interpolated value $z=f(X,Y)$ for given coordinates ${X,Y}$ (which are of course not in the data ...
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Ηow to create an interpolated CDF from its samples?
I want to use a distribution I have only aggregate statistics on, namely its CDF sampled at certain points. I would like to keep it "nonparametric" (remain noncommittal on the parametric form), but I ...
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Is it possible to compute trapezoidal rule numerical integration?
Is it possible to compute trapezoidal rule numerical integration? I know that Mathematica has Interpolation, and that a list of points can be interpolated and then ...
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Interpolating 2D data with missing values
I have a list (21 x 21) containing values. I want to eliminate slots containing zeros by interpolating the nearest values and overwriting the zeros. How do I use the Mathematica's ...
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How do I prevent NIntegrate::inumr errors within other functions?
I believe this question is best illustrated with a simple example. If I run
FunctionInterpolation[NIntegrate[a + b, {a, 0, 1}], {b, 0, 1}]
I get errors of the ...
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Joining and interpolating data points
I wonder what is the best practice for interpolating curves? Usually I'm using BSplineCurve and adjusting SplineWeights so it ...
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Higher order periodic interpolation (curve fitting)
I have a list of points in 3D, and I want to get a smooth interpolation or curve fit (it is more for illustration) of these points such that the first and second derivatives at the start and end ...
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No warning when extrapolating with Plot
One of the most annoying "features" of Mathematica is that the Plot family does extrapolation on InterpolatingFunctions without ...
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How to get zeroth-order (piecewise constant) interpolation of scattered data?
Given a collection of scattered data points in 2D and associated function values,
data = RandomReal[1, {100, 3}];
we can get a piecewise linear interpolating ...
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How to splice together several instances of InterpolatingFunction?
I have a set of InterpolatingFunction returned by NDSolve which are valid over different (but overall continuous) domains. How ...
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How to reduce the InterpolatingFunction building overhead?
I want a linear interpolation from the following example list:
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Derivatives (divergence, gradient, curl) of interpolated 3D data
How can I calculate a vector derivative (i.e. divergence, gradient, curl) of interpolated data? For sample data, you can use:
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Prevent Plus from threading InterpolatingFunction
For an InterpolatingFunction $y:\ \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^2$, Plus is unaware of this, so when I do any modifications to it in ...
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Convert BSplineFunction into two Interpolating Functions
Is there a way to decompose a BSplineFunction output into two functions x[t], y[t] ...
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Why does LogLinearPlot sample its argument outside the specified domain?
I experience a weird bug in the function LogLinearPlot. If the input is an interpolation function, such as the one created like this,
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Interpolation of mostly-structured 3D data
this question relates to interpolation of 3D data and Improved interpolation of mostly-structured 3d data
I have an irregular 3d data set that is quite large (around 70,000 triplets---let's call it ...
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How to get the boolean value of an inequality involving an InterpolatingFunction?
Here's the code:
yan = FunctionInterpolation[x^2, {x, -1, 1}];
FullSimplify[yan[x] > -1, -1 < x < 1]
Needless to say, what I expect to see in the output ...
