Hi,

This code and the formula is like 18 years old, i'd welcome someone checking on 
improvements. Rather to make it really good, not just with a button to set the 
interplation value.

Your 'plot' didnt get through...

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   [email protected]    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 11 Feb, 2013, at 23:26, [email protected] wrote:

> Pardon me if this is the wrong list to send this to.  If so, I would 
> appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction.  Thanks!
> 
> 
> The Cardinal spline interpolation for lattices befuddles me. The tension-like 
> variable (fc in the code) is set to 0.71, which I'm guessing is approximately 
> 1/sqrt(2).  However, this gives very ugly and wavy results on long straight 
> objects like an airplane wing. In fact, the slopes at the knots is just plain 
> wrong.  However, when fc = 0.5, I get very nice cubic-spline-like behavior 
> except at the end points where the code logic just seems to be wrong.  
> Nevertheless, the waviness at the knots is disconcerting in the current 
> distribution of Blender. The plots below show what I mean.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thoughts?  Any chance that fc (tension?) variable can be a parameter the user 
> could control?
> 
> 
> _____
> David
> 
> 
> 
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