Arduino Interpolation library question

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Hello!

I've been trying to understand how to use this library with no success:

just to test the library i was simply trying to travel from point y to point y for a start. with no results.

#include "InterpolationLib.h"

const int numValues = 10;
double xValues = 0;
double yValues = 100;
float  xValue = 0;

void setup(){
  Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop(){
Interpolation::Step(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue, 0.0);
Serial.println(xValue);
delay(100);
}

i clearly don't understand how the function works since i'm getting a compiling error. Can someone point me out how to perform this simple task?

I understand how i could simply increment xValues with xValues++ until it targets yValues, but i would like to take advantage of the diferent curves this library offers.

here is the example on the library, notice xValue and xValues are diferent things(took me a while...)

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#include "InterpolationLib.h"

const int numValues = 10;
double xValues[10] = {   5,  12,  30,  50,  60,  70,  74,  84,  92, 100 };
double yValues[10] = { 150, 200, 200, 200, 180, 100, 100, 150, 220, 320 };

void setup()
{
	while (!Serial) { ; }
	Serial.begin(115200);

	for (float xValue = 0; xValue <= 110; xValue += .25)
	{
	    Serial.print(Interpolation::Step(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue, 0.0));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.print(Interpolation::Step(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue, 0.5));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.print(Interpolation::Step(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue, 1.0));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.print(Interpolation::SmoothStep(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.print(Interpolation::Linear(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue, false));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.print(Interpolation::Linear(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue, true));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.print(Interpolation::CatmullSpline(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue));
		Serial.print(',');
		Serial.println(Interpolation::ConstrainedSpline(xValues, yValues, numValues, xValue));
	}
}

void loop()
{
}

Thanks in advance!

2

If you are getting a compilation error, please cut and paste it here. Does the library have documentation that you can read? Example sketches that you can try?

3

are you familiar with map()?

4

aarg:
If you are getting a compilation error, please cut and paste it here. Does the library have documentation that you can read? Example sketches that you can try?

here is the error

collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I'm not getting a compiling error if i run the example code of the library, that one runs fine.
I think i'm just making some idiotic mistake somewhere since i'm not understanding how the library works.
There is not much documentation on the library...just the example i posted above and two others that don't relate to my needs. Also, i think no one posted here about this library until now.
A more illustrative example would be nicer.

gcjr:
are you familiar with map()?

Yes, i'm familiar with map(). How does it relate to it?

Thank you for your time and attention!

5

doesn't map() interpolate integer values over integer ranges?

long map(long x, long in_min, long in_max, long out_min, long out_max)
{
  return (x - in_min) * (out_max - out_min) / (in_max - in_min) + out_min;
}
6

sorry for my untechnical language, English is not my first language also, as you guys might have already noticed i'm nowhere near an experienced coder :slight_smile:

OK here it goes, in my understanding map() simply "scales" one value into another by linearly expanding or diminishing a value by a scaling factor.

I was hopping this library would, knowing point "a" and point "b", calculate a "trajectory"(a new value every time it's called) between this two points based on the different library algorithms (Linear, Smooth, Catmull spline and Constrained spline).

Maybe i got it completely wrong

7

ok. you want more than linear piece-wise interpolation.

post your errors