Lecture 2 of Numerical methods I (wi2604)

• The following subjects are discussed:
  
  
  • Motivation interpolation, Lagrange interpolation
  • Hermite interpolation
  • Cubic spline interpolation
    
    
  Corresponding pages in the lecture notes: pages 11- 23
  
  
• Historical remarks
  
  
• Excercises and answers
  
  
• Additional information
  
  
  • Slide show
  • Lagrange Interpolation Demo
  • Interactive cubic spline interpolation.
  • An important class of splines are the the so-called NURBS. NURBS is an abreviation of Non Uniform Rational B-Splines. There are a number of introduction books on these splines. NURBS are popular in computer games, design of cars, planes, and fonts etc. There an interactive demo available for NURBS. See the MSc project of Reijer Idema for an application of NURBS.