Implementation of divided differences to shape preservation
摘要
Divided difference methods are used in many engineering and scientific applications to solve numerical interpolation problems. Since shape-preserving approximation has many applications in computer-based geometric design, image processing, geodesy, chemistry, and robotics, we aim to implement divided difference methods to study the shape-preserving properties of a class of blending-type operators, which are constructed via certain shape parameters and represented in terms of divided differences. Considering this new representation, we establish the shape-preserving properties of operators, such as linearity, positivity, end-point interpolation and specifically monotonicity and convexity-preserving properties in connection with a function on the interval