Radial Basis Function Surfaces

Radial Basis Function Surfaces

This is the current culmination of my research work for the CS department at the U of I. It’s an implementation of a radial basis function surface (RBF). The big dots are the control points – they define where you want the surface to go. The code solves the system and generates a function throughout all space. Then another program goes through and finds all of the points where that function is equal to zero – the “zero set” of the function. Then it draws it, and you get these nice smooth blobby surfaces.

The colored blocks in the background are unrelated, except I wanted to see how easy it was to do.

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