On 2019-01-17, conrrrod@gmail.com <conrrrod@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can across a really old Fortran program with a subroutine that interpolates
> a 1D array of N samples to 3N samples. It uses a 5-point operator, and
> the comments describe it as
>  Bracewell method, spline approximation to sinc.
> I haven't seen this before. Bracewell's 1995 book on Two-Dimensional Imaging
> had a formula for 6 nearest points.
> Did he publish a formula for 1D interpolation with 5 points?
>
> BTW it sounds like it would be rather approximate, but I suppose in those days
> they had to make do (a "mainframe" with 8 MB of RAM)

There's a 1D spline interpolation problem in the 3rd ed of his
"The Fourier Transform and its Applications" (pp252-253) that
shows a 4 point approximation. It may be in earlier editions, but
I've lost my old one. There are several interpolations mentioned
in Chapter 10 "Sampling and Series."

There were NO digital computers available here in OZ when
Bracewell started out as a budding radio-astronomer!

Hi conr..., Just for the heck of it, I checked Bracewell's 1965 Fourier Transform book. I didn't see any sort of 5-point interpolation information there.

I can across a really old Fortran program with a subroutine that interpolates
a 1D array of N samples to 3N samples. It uses a 5-point operator, and
the comments describe it as
 Bracewell method, spline approximation to sinc.
I haven't seen this before. Bracewell's 1995 book on Two-Dimensional Imaging
had a formula for 6 nearest points.
Did he publish a formula for 1D interpolation with 5 points?

BTW it sounds like it would be rather approximate, but I suppose in those days
they had to make do (a "mainframe" with 8 MB of RAM)