Performs one-dimensional interpolation by using the spline interpolation method.
The spline interpolation method returns the smoothest result out of all interpolation methods.
You can reuse piecewise polynomial as an input to the Evaluate Interpolating Polynomial node to find the interpolated values.
A Boolean that specifies whether the values of the independent variable increase monotonically with the index.
True | The values of the independent variable increase monotonically with the index. This node does not sort x or reorder y. |
False | The values of the independent variable does not increase monotonically with the index. This node sorts x to be in ascending order and reorders y accordingly. |
Default: False
Tabulated values of the dependent variable.
Tabulated values of the independent variable. The length of x must equal the length of y.
Values of the independent variable at which this node computes the interpolated values of the dependent variables.
This input accepts a double-precision, floating-point number or a 1D array of double-precision, floating-point numbers.
Number of times that this node interpolates values repeatedly and evenly between each x element to generate xi used. ntimes determines the locations of the interpolation values.
This input yields interpolated values between every y element when xi is empty. The node ignores ntimes if you wire the xi input.
This input is available only if you wire an array of double-precision, floating-point numbers to xi.
Default: 1
Error conditions that occur before this node runs.
The node responds to this input according to standard error behavior.
Standard Error Behavior
Many nodes provide an error in input and an error out output so that the node can respond to and communicate errors that occur while code is running. The value of error in specifies whether an error occurred before the node runs. Most nodes respond to values of error in in a standard, predictable way.
Default: No error
Conditions at the initial boundary.
Boundary condition type.
Name | Description |
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natural spline | The second derivative at the initial boundary is 0 and this node ignores the derivative value input in initial boundary. |
not-a-knot | The third derivative at the second data point x 1 in x is continuous, which means this node fits one polynomial through the first three data points, and the polynomial between [x 0, x 1] is the same as the polynomial between [x 1, x 2]. This option is useful if you know nothing about the derivatives at the initial boundary. If you specify not-a-knot, this node ignores the derivative value input in initial boundary. |
1st derivative | derivative value in initial boundary specifies the first derivative at the initial boundary. |
2nd derivative | derivative value in initial boundary specifies the second derivative at the initial boundary. |
Default: natural spline
Value of the first or second derivative at the initial boundary.
This node ignores derivative value when boundary is natural spline or not-a-knot.
Default: 0
Conditions at the final boundary.
Boundary condition type.
Name | Description |
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natural spline | The second derivative at the final boundary is 0 and this node ignores the derivative value input in final boundary. |
not-a-knot | The third derivative at the second-to-last data point in x, x n - 2, is continuous, which means this node fits one polynomial through the last three data points, and the polynomial between [x n - 2, x n - 1] is the same as the polynomial between [x n - 3, x n - 2]. This option is useful if you know nothing about the derivatives at the final boundary. If you specify not-a-knot, this node ignores the derivative value input in final boundary. |
1st derivative | derivative value in final boundary specifies the first derivative at the final boundary. |
2nd derivative | derivative value in final boundary specifies the second derivative at the final boundary. |
Default: natural spline
Value of the first or second derivative at the final boundary.
This node ignores derivative value when boundary is natural spline or not-a-knot.
Default: 0
Interpolated values that correspond to the independent variable values.
This output can return a double-precision, floating-point number or a 1D array of double-precision, floating-point numbers.
Values of the independent variable at which this node computes interpolated values of the dependent variable.
This output is available only if you wire an array of double-precision, floating-point numbers to xi.
If xi is empty, xi used returns 2 ntimes *(N - 1) + 1 points with (2 ntimes - 1) points located evenly between each two adjacent elements in x, where N is the length of x. If you wire the xi input, xi used equals xi.
Piecewise interpolating polynomial for the Evaluate Interpolating Polynomial node to reuse.
Endpoint values of the x domain.
If x locations is of size N, the coefficients array should contain N - 1 rows of polynomial coefficients.
Coefficients of the interpolating polynomial.
Row i of coefficients contains the coefficients for the interpolating polynomial between elements x i and x i + 1 of x locations.
Error information.
The node produces this output according to standard error behavior.
Standard Error Behavior
Many nodes provide an error in input and an error out output so that the node can respond to and communicate errors that occur while code is running. The value of error in specifies whether an error occurred before the node runs. Most nodes respond to values of error in in a standard, predictable way.
This node performs spline interpolation by using the cubic spline method. With the cubic spline method, this node derives a third-order polynomial for each interval between two adjacent points. The polynomials meet the following conditions:
The following figure illustrates the cubic spline method.
In the previous figure, P j (x) is the third-order polynomial between two adjacent points, (x j , y j ) and (x j + 1, y j + 1).
Where This Node Can Run:
Desktop OS: Windows
FPGA: Not supported
Web Server: Not supported in VIs that run in a web application