Reconstruction of curves with minimal energy using a blending interpolator

A weighted blending interpolator, a kind of smooth rational spline based only on function values, is constructed using a rational cubic spline and a polynomial spline. In order to meet the needs of practical design, a new control method is employed to control the shape of curves. The advantage of the method is that it can be applied to modify the local shape of an interpolating curve by selecting suitable parameters and weight coefficients simply. Also, when the weight coefficient is in 0,1], the error estimation formula of this interpolator is obtained. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.