On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Charles Henry wrote:
I see no problem with shortening the names, because it's not practical to name these things concisely, e.g. "tabread4_continuous_first_derivative~" or "tabread4_anti_aliasing~"
"continuous first derivative" is listed as "continuously differentiable" in the list of meanings of this abbreviation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1
I think it's best to consider making a library of tabread4~ alternatives, and later consider moving the different interpolation schemes to tabread4~ methods, if it's worth-while.
I don't think that more than one alternative will be necessary. For 4-point table lookups that go through all the original points, I don't know why anyone would aim lower than a C2 piecewise-polynomial. Unfortunately, it would be somewhat too late to just call it [tabread4~]. Or not.
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