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author | jthorn <jthorn@df1f8a13-aa1d-4dd4-9681-27ded5b42416> | 2002-08-18 15:46:55 +0000 |
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committer | jthorn <jthorn@df1f8a13-aa1d-4dd4-9681-27ded5b42416> | 2002-08-18 15:46:55 +0000 |
commit | 2e5505f7827047abf07cd513c2118942bac0a677 (patch) | |
tree | b258a7b5f818a6c7d93b4b2abf37345d0f2aeca9 /doc/documentation.tex | |
parent | 15c98b3abee2525b24ca89932256ff2cda63c9bc (diff) |
Another change in preparation for adding Hermite interpolation:
Change the documented name of the Lagrange interpolation operator from
"generalized polynomial interpolation" to "Lagrange polynomial interpolation"
(& document that the old name is still accepted for backwards
compatability).
git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusBase/LocalInterp/trunk@82 df1f8a13-aa1d-4dd4-9681-27ded5b42416
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex index 2f1f55a..8e35c16 100644 --- a/doc/documentation.tex +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ supports the \verb|CCTK_InterpLocal()| API, and thus doesn't use any parameter table at all. It provides Lagrange polynomial interpolation of orders 1, 2, and 3, registered under the operator names \verb|"first-order uniform Cartesian"|, -\verb|"second-order uniform Cartesian"|, and +\verb|"second-order uniform Cartesian"|, and\\ \verb|"third-order uniform Cartesian"| respectively. Each of these supports 1, 2, and 3-D arrays. The code is hard-wired for hypercube-shaped interpolation molecules, but it would be easy @@ -859,11 +859,16 @@ The generalized polynomial interpolator was written in C (plus Maple to generate the coefficients) by Jonathan Thornburg in winter 2001-2002. It provides Lagrange polynomial interpolation of orders 1-6 for 1-D arrays, and 1-4 for 2- and 3-D -arrays, all registered under the operator name -\verb|"generalized polynomial interpolation"|. (Again, it would -be easy to add additional orders and/or dimensions if desired.) -The code allows arbitrarily-shaped interpolation molecules, but at -the moment only hypercube-shaped molecules are implemented. +arrays, all registered under the operator name\\ +\verb|"Lagrange polynomial interpolation"|.%%% +\footnote{%%% + For backwards compatability, the operator name + \hbox{\tt "generalized polynomial interpolation"} + is also allowed. + }%%% +{} (Again, it would be easy to add additional orders and/or dimensions +if desired.) The code allows arbitrarily-shaped interpolation molecules, +but at the moment only hypercube-shaped molecules are implemented. This interpolator supports a number of the features described in section~\ref{sect-generic-options}: |