Message-ID: <1112367620.3551.5.camel@seurat>
Date: 2005-04-01T15:00:20Z
From: Martyn Plummer
Subject: French Curve
In-Reply-To: <16972.63657.235677.126167@stat.math.ethz.ch>
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 09:30 +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "dream" == dream home <dreamhouse at gmail.com>
> >>>>> on Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:27:08 -0800 writes:
>
> dream> Dear R experts, Did someone implemented French Curve
> dream> yet? Or can anyone point me some papers that I can
> dream> follow to implement it?
>
> Are you talking about "splines" ?
>
> I vaguely remember having read that in the distant past, splines
> were sometimes called "French curves".
I found this:
G. Wahba and S. Wold, "A completely automatic french curve: Fitting
splines by cross validation," Commun. Statist., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-17,
1975.
I remember that my father had a French curve: it was a plastic template
used for drawing which had several smooth edges of varying curvature.
You could use it to draw a wide variety of curved shapes. No doubt the
French called it something else.
> There's lots of splines functionality in the basic 'stats'
> package, in the recommended 'mgcv' package and even more in
> quite a few other packages.
>
>
> dream> thanks in advance for your help.
>
> You're welcome,
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich