PLGRIDDATA(3)

NAME
plgriddata - Grid data from irregularly sampled data

SYNOPSIS
plggriddata(x, y, z, npts, xg, nptsx, yg, nptsy, zg, type, data)

DESCRIPTION

Real world data is frequently irregularly sampled, but all PLplot 3D plots require data placed in a uniform grid. This function takes irregularly sampled data from three input arrays x[npts], y[npts], and z[npts], reads the desired grid location from input arrays xg[nptsx] and yg[nptsy], and returns the gridded data into output array zg[nptsx][nptsy]. The algorithm used to grid the data is specified with the argument type which can have one parameter specified in argument data.

ARGUMENTS

x (PLFLT *, input)
    The input x array.

y (PLFLT *, input)
    The input y array.

z (PLFLT *, input)
    The input z array. Each triple x[i], y[i], z[i] represents one data sample coordinates.

npts (PLINT, input)
    The number of data samples in the x, y and z arrays.

xg (PLFLT *, input)
    The input array that specifies the grid spacing in the x direction. Usually xg has nptsx equaly spaced values from the mininum to the maximum values of the x input array.

nptsx (PLINT, input)
    The number of points in the xg array.

yg (PLFLT *, input)
    The input array that specifies the grid spacing in the y direction. Similar to the xg parameter.

nptsy (PLINT, input)
    The number of points in the yg array.

sg (PLFLT **, output)
    The output array, where data lies in the regular grid specified by xg and yg. the zg array must exists or be allocated by the user prior to the calling, and must have dimension zg[nptsx][xptsy].

type (PLINT, input)
    The type of gridding algorithm to use, which can be: GRID_CSA: Bivariate Cubic Spline approximation GRID_DTLI: Delaunay Triangulation Linear Interpolation GRID_NNI: Natural Neighbors Interpolation GRID_NNIDW: Nearest Neighbors Inverse Distance Weighted GRID_NNLI: Nearest Neighbors Linear Interpolation GRID_NNAIDW: Nearest Neighbors Around Inverse Distance Weighted For details on the algorithm read the source file plgridd.c.

data (PLFLT, input)
    Some gridding algorithms require extra data, which can be specified through this argument. Currently, for algoritm: GRID_NNIDW, data specifies the number of neighbors to use, the lower the value, the noisier (more local) the approximation is. GRID_NNLI, data specifies what a thin triangle is, in the range [1. .. 2.]. High values enable the usage of very thin triangles for interpolation, possibly resulting in error in the approximation. GRID_NNI, only weights greater than data will be accepted. If 0, all weigths will be accepted.

AUTHORS
Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot. This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO
PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sf.net/resources.