csa3s calculates an approximating cubic spline for three-dimensional input data. If you want to weight the input data values, calculate derivatives, or handle data sparse areas specially, then you will need to use csa3xs.
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function csa3s( xi[*] : float, yi[*] : float, zi[*] : float, ui[*] : float, knots[3] : integer xo[*] : float yo[*] : float zo[*] : float )
csa3s is in the csagrid package - a software package that implements a cubic spline approximation algorithm to fit a function to input data. The input for the approximation is a set of randomly-spaced data. These data may be one-dimensional, two-dimensional, or three-dimensional.
The general documentation for csagrid contains several complete examples for entries in the csagrid package.
begin ; ; Create the input arrays. ; xmin = -2. xmax = 2. ymin = -2. ymax = 2. zmin = -2. zmax = 2. nx = 21 ny = 21 nz = 21 ndata = 1000 xi = new(ndata,float) yi = new(ndata,float) zi = new(ndata,float) ui = new(ndata,float) do i=0,ndata-1 xi(i) = xmin + (xmax-xmin)*rand()/32767. yi(i) = ymin + (ymax-ymin)*rand()/32767. zi(i) = zmin + (zmax-zmin)*rand()/32767. ui(i) = xi(i)*xi(i) + yi(i)*yi(i) + zi(i)*zi(i) end do ; ; Set up the output grid. ; xo = fspan(xmin,xmax,nx) yo = fspan(ymin,ymax,ny) zo = fspan(zmin,zmax,nz) ; ; Calculate the values for the approximating cubic spline. ; knots = (/4,4,4/) uo = csa3s(xi,yi,zi,ui,knots,xo,yo,zo) end
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