In previous works a polynomial interpolation method for triangular meshes has been introduced. This interpolant can be used to design smooth surfaces of arbitrary topological type. In a design process, it is very useful to be able to locate the deformation made on a geometric model. The previously introduced interpolant has the so-called strict locality property: when a mesh vertex is changed, ...

When an approximant is accurate on interval, it only natural to try extend multi-dimensional domains. In the present article we make use of fact that linear rational barycentric interpolants converge rapidly toward analytic and several-times differentiable functions interpolate them two-dimensional starlike domains parametrized in polar coordinates. radial direction, engage at conformally shift...

Mean value interpolation is a simple, fast, linearly precise method of smoothly interpolating a function given on the boundary of a domain. For planar domains, several properties of the interpolant were established in a recent paper by Dyken and the second author, including: sufficient conditions on the boundary to guarantee interpolation for continuous data; a formula for the normal derivative...

In this contribution, we study multivariate polynomial interpolation and quadrature rules on non-tensor product node sets linked to Lissajous curves and Chebyshev varieties. After classifying multivariate Lissajous curves and the interpolation nodes related to these curves, we derive a discrete orthogonality structure on these node sets. Using this discrete orthogonality structure, we can deriv...

We describe a new method for analyzing and extracting human gait motion by combining statistical methods with image processing. The periodic motion of human gait is modeled by trigonometric-polynomial interpolant functions. The gait description is derived by topological analysis guided by medical studies that select areas from which joint angles are derived by regression analysis. Then, the int...