Further reading on splines
A confession — I knew very little about the theory of splines before writing this week’s introduction to Bezier curves and splines. I’ve been trying to do some catch-up reading in the last few days, and have found quite a few interesting links I thought I should share:
- The Algorithmist has a very interesting series of articles on the history, theory, and calculation of splines. They are well explained and easy to read.
- Tim Lambert has an interesting page giving interactive examples of many different splines: the natural cubic spline, Bezier splines, B-splines and Catmull-Rom splines. Very interestingly for me, he gives the source code for the interactive Java applets — something for me to read through over the weekend!
- Grady Wright also has an interesting interactive applet demonstrating cubic splines.
- It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Mathematica has excellent integrated support for splines — see the “Splines” entry at Mathworld for links to the Mathematica routines. If only I had a spare grand for a copy of it!
If you know any other good resources on the theory or calculation of splines, then please leave a comment. Any recommendations for books on this area would also be appreciated — I need something to keep me occupied this summer…
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