From: PREUSSER@fhi-berlin.mpg.de (Albrecht PREUSSER) Subject: Re: Akima Spline Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:58:06 +0100 Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis In article <7a25qd$a1$1@juliana.sprynet.com>, "John Laughlin" wrote: > I am looking for a version of Akima's algorithm > (A New Method of Interpolation and Smooth Curve > Fitting Based on Local Procedures, ACM vol. 17, > 1970.) that can be used to recover derivatives > and which stores intermediate information > (averaged slopes at the points). I plan to > call the routine a large number of times but > the given points do not change. > > John Laughlin It is Algorithm 433 from TOMS. You get via the following URL: http://www.netlib.org/toms/433 Hope that helps. -- Dr. Albrecht Preusser Gemeinsames Rechenzentrum Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG Faradayweg 4-6 D-14195 Berlin (Dahlem) Phone: +49-30-84133-220 http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/~grz/pub/preusser.html