How to interpolate S-shaped curve?

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1 total messages Started by KSZ Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:12

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Author: KSZ
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:12

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I am wondering if anybody knows how to line-smooth a curve which is S -shaped?
The characteristic of this curve is that y is not single-valued. An example is
a circle.
 
I am interested in cubic spline fitting. My idea is to cut the curve into
pieces and for each piece, do the cubic spline since each piece has single-
valued y. But this doesn't work simply because (1) it is hard to determine
cut points for numeraical data and (2) the left- and right-derivatives of
the middle piece if infinity.
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