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  • Free Polynomial Interpolation Book for a Limited Time...

    From Noskosteve@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 26 05:52:10 2015
    With the obviously reduced interest in Usenet, this may fall on deaf ears...

    Sorry for the obvious grabber, but it's true...

    Time for what may be the last self-serving, shameless plug for my free book.

    Effective Oct 8 2015 Comcast removed my access to edit the site. It's still there for downloading the book & Sup material as of Oct 25 2015. But can GO AWAY AT ANY TIME. I'm not sure if I'll set up a new host.

    I have received a dozen or so thanks for this work and wish to make it available for others in the future. It will still be found on the Internet Archive (WayBack Machine). The Internet Archive is saving the entire web! BELOW I have Archive links for
    my site.

    If anyone wants to host this please grab whatever you want now. I'll send it to anyone upon request in the future, if my site goes away. I can be emailed at noskosteve (at) either yahoo, or gmail (dot) com .

    What is this Book ??

    NEW DOCUMENTS have been ADDED that I did not add to the book and probably never will:
    - Approximating the SINE function with a method based on the Coons quintic function.
    - Maxim Shemanarev's algo for drawing a curve through a series of points using cubic Bezier.
    - Dylan Miller's approximation of an arbitrary circular arc with a cubic Bezier segment.


    WHAT IS IT?
    "Interpolation and Curves for Graphics" - A Study of Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation Fundamentals And Curve Reference

    This book is *both*
    1 - A study of the fundamentals for a beginner and
    2 - An advanced reference of all common piecewise interpolation types with sample curves to demonstrate the behaviors. It also has a few things that I think derive from new ways of looking at various aspects of the math.

    When I wanted to learn about Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation for the laser light show system I built, I couldn't find a book suitable for me. After much reading and searching on the net a number of years ago, I had many notes, so I put them in order
    and it turned into the book I originally needed. Comments are always welcome via my site, but I probably won't be writing much in the way of additional revisions (time to ship it).

    Background and downloads are here AS LONG AS COMCAST leaves the site up:
    http://k9dci.home.comcast.net/site/?/page/Piecewise_Polynomial_Interpolation/

    Direct download links:
    Text
    http://k9dci.home.comcast.net/~k9dci/Book/Manuscript_Ver_9b.pdf 1.9M
    Appendix
    http://k9dci.home.comcast.net/~k9dci/Book/Appendix_Ver_8b.pdf 1.7M
    Happy fishing...

    PLEASE SEND ANY COMMENTS to me via my web site CONTACT page, or the E-Mail addresses above.
    --
    Cheers, Steve Noskowicz

    ******* Internet Archive Links **************

    INTERNET ARCHIVE COPIES ( "WayBack Machine") Links for My Site and Interpolation Documents

    The overall Internet Archive Log of my site: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://home.comcast.net/~k9dci/site/

    This looks like the Oct 2 2015 capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20151002232122/http://home.comcast.net/~k9dci/site/

    Direct Archive links. These may take a few more seconds to load from tapes and may come from earlier crawls, but should be the latest versions:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20141019101044/http://k9dci.home.comcast.net/~k9dci/Book/Manuscript_Ver_9b.pdf
    https://web.archive.org/web/20151001192625/http://k9dci.home.comcast.net/~k9dci/Book/Appendix_Ver_8b.pdf

    The Page explaining the SUPPLEMENTAL material not in the book: https://web.archive.org/web/20150930224506/http://home.comcast.net/~k9dci/site/?/page/Piecewise_Polynomial_Interpolation/

    Direct Archive links to the supplemental ma