Research Article

Piecewise Bivariate Hermite Interpolations for Large Sets of Scattered Data

Table 4

The computing time of the four methods on the grid points in the unit square.

Number of scatter data WLRBF Shepard’s method

100 5.6 15.46 185.64 52.54
300 28.59 30.35 399.38 113.99
500 42.31 13.77 586.63 180.94
800 64.21 68.04 779.32 225.97
1000 80.28 80.66 1102.64 271.22