Spliner

Spliner is a Ruby library to perform cubic spline interpolation based on provided key points (X1, Y1), (X2, Y2), ... , (Xn,Yn)

It also supports extrapolation outside the provided range of X values.

Installation

Spliner requires Ruby 1.9 or later. Install with rubygems:

gem install spliner

Quick Start

require 'spliner'

# Initialize a spline interpolation with x range 0.0..2.0
my_spline = Spliner::Spliner.new({0.0 => 0.0, 1.0 => 1.0, 2.0 => 0.5})

# Perform interpolation on 31 values ranging from 0..2.0
x_values = (0..30).map {|x| x / 30.0 * 2.0 }
y_values = x_values.map {|x| my_spline[x] }


# perform extrapolation outside key points using linear Y = aX + b
ex_spline = Spliner::Spliner.new({0.0 => 0.0, 1.0 => 1.0, 2.0 => 0.5}, :extrapolate => '10%')
xx = ex_spline[2.1] # returns 0.4124999999999999

# perform extrapolation outside key points using linear Y = aX + b
ex_spline = Spliner::Spliner.new({0.0 => 0.0, 1.0 => 1.0, 2.0 => 0.5}, :extrapolate => '10%', :emethod => :hold)
xx = ex_spline[2.1] # returns 0.5

# Alternative intialization using X and Y arrays
ar_spline = Spliner::Spliner.new [1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [0.0, 3.0, 1.0]

# When duplicate X values are encountered, two or more discontinuous curves are used
two_spline = Spliner::Spliner.new [1.0, 2.0, 2.0, 3.0], [0.0, 3.0, 0.0, 1.0]
puts two_spline.sections # prints 2

Spliner is based on the interpolation described on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_interpolation

Contributing to Spliner

Feel free to fork the project on GitHub and send fork requests. Please try to have each feature separated in commits.

Home page

http://www.github.com/tallakt/spliner

http://rubygems.org/gems/spliner

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (C) 2012 Tallak Tveide

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