The following interpolator types all operate on regular grids.

  • The BilinearInterpolator and BicubicInterpolator will work with any regular, unevenly spaced grids.
  • The BicubicSplineInterpolator expects uniform spacing in each dimension, although the spacing on one axis doesn't have to match the other. This interpolator estimates derivatives using finite differences to construct the splines.
  • The BichebyshevInterpolator must have the usual Chebyshev spacing in each direction, but it can have a different number of points on each axis.
InterpolatorsMethod
BilinearInterpolatorpiecewise linear
BicubicInterpolatorpiecewise cubic (no smoothness guarantee)
BichebyshevInterpolatorChebyshev expansions
BasicInterpolators.BilinearInterpolator — Type
BilinearInterpolator(x, y, Z, boundaries=StrictBoundaries())

Construct a BilinearInterpolator for the grid of points points defined by coordinates x,y and values Z.

BilinearInterpolator(f, xa, xb, nx, ya, yb, ny, boundaries=StrictBoundaries())

Construct a BilinearInterpolator for the function f using a grid of nx points evenly spaced on the first axis in [xa,xb] and ny points evenly spaced on the second axis in [ya,yb].

BasicInterpolators.BicubicInterpolator — Type
BicubicInterpolator(x, y, Z, boundaries=StrictBoundaries())

Construct a BicubicInterpolator for the grid of points points defined by coordinates x,y and values Z.

BicubicInterpolator(f, xa, xb, nx, ya, yb, ny, boundaries=StrictBoundaries())

Construct a BicubicInterpolator for the function f using a grid of nx points evenly spaced on the first axis in [xa,xb] and ny points evenly spaced on the second axis in [ya,yb].

BasicInterpolators.BichebyshevInterpolator — Type
BichebyshevInterpolator(x, y, Z)

Construct a BichebyshevInterpolator for the grid of points defined by coordinates (x,y) and values Z. The given points must lie on a chebyshev grid in each direction. These can be generated with the chebygrid function or the interpolator can be constructed directly from a function using the method below.

Warning

The Bichebyshev interpolator is not thread-safe. It computes a cosine expansion and does some linear algebra in-place using arrays stored with the object. A single BichebyshevInterpolator should never be called by multiple threads at once.

BichebyshevInterpolator(f, xa, xb, nx, ya, yb, ny)

Construct a BichebyshevInterpolator for the function f using a grid of nx points on the first axis in [xa,xb] and ny points on the second axis in [ya,yb].