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Curve fitting [1] [2] is the process of constructing a curve, or mathematical function, that has the best fit to a series of data points, [3] possibly subject to constraints. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Curve fitting can involve either interpolation , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] where an exact fit to the data is required, or smoothing , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] in which a "smooth ...
Most rotation matrices fit this description, and for them it can be shown that (Q − I)(Q + I) −1 is a skew-symmetric matrix, A. Thus A T = − A ; and since the diagonal is necessarily zero, and since the upper triangle determines the lower one, A contains 1 / 2 n ( n − 1) independent numbers.
The figure also includes the radial basis functions φ = exp(−r 2) which gives a good interpolation as well. Finally, the figure includes also the non-polyharmonic spline phi = r 2 to demonstrate, that this radial basis function is not able to pass through the predefined points (the linear equation has no solution and is solved in a least ...
In the theory of three-dimensional rotation, Rodrigues' rotation formula, named after Olinde Rodrigues, is an efficient algorithm for rotating a vector in space, given an axis and angle of rotation. By extension, this can be used to transform all three basis vectors to compute a rotation matrix in SO(3) , the group of all rotation matrices ...
The convolution of a function with a Gaussian is also known as a Weierstrass transform. A Gaussian function is the wave function of the ground state of the quantum harmonic oscillator. The molecular orbitals used in computational chemistry can be linear combinations of Gaussian functions called Gaussian orbitals (see also basis set (chemistry)).
Let X be an affine space over a field k, and V be its associated vector space. An affine transformation is a bijection f from X onto itself that is an affine map; this means that a linear map g from V to V is well defined by the equation () = (); here, as usual, the subtraction of two points denotes the free vector from the second point to the first one, and "well-defined" means that ...
A Givens rotation acting on a matrix from the left is a row operation, moving data between rows but always within the same column. Unlike the elementary operation of row-addition, a Givens rotation changes both of the rows addressed by it.
O'Rourke's approach uses a 3-dimensional rotating calipers technique, and is based on lemmas characterizing the minimum enclosing box: There must exist two neighbouring faces of the smallest-volume enclosing box which both contain an edge of the convex hull of the point set.