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from Thin Plate Spline Network with Radiohead Example by Travis Wiens
Thin plate splines can be used to interpolate nonuniform data, such as the Radiohead dataset, which

tps_simple_example.m
%this is a simple example of using a thin plate spline radial basis
%function to fit a surface to a number of points

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N_t=20;%number of training points
N_dim=2;%number of dimensions in input

X_t=rand(N_dim,N_t);%training input
Y_t=rand(1,N_t);%training output

[a, Xc]=train_thin_plate_spline(X_t,Y_t);%train thin plate spline network

X_range=[0 1;0 1];%limits of X to plot at
N_grid=[256 256];%number of points to plot at in form [x y]
[x_mesh y_mesh]=meshgrid(linspace(X_range(1,1),X_range(1,2),N_grid(1)),linspace(X_range(2,1),X_range(2,2),N_grid(2)));
X_mesh=[reshape(x_mesh,1,[]);reshape(y_mesh,1,[])];%reshape into X=[x;y] matrix

Y_mesh=sim_thin_plate_spline(X_mesh,Xc,a);%perform tps calculation on mesh points
Y_mesh_r=reshape(Y_mesh,N_grid(1),N_grid(2));%reshape into rectangular matrix

figure(1)
surf(x_mesh,y_mesh,Y_mesh_r)
colormap(jet)
shading interp
hold on
plot3(X_t(1,:),X_t(2,:),Y_t,'*k')
hold off

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