Peter Alfeld, --- Department of Mathematics, --- College of Science --- University of Utah

Microscope

Microscope is a an interactive and programmable software package for the analysis of multivariate functions. Given an interpolation or approximation scheme, it allows the following questions, among others, to be answered:

Does the scheme interpolate?
How often is it differentiable?
What functions does it reproduce exactly?
If the scheme is polynomial, what is its polynomial degree?
Where is the smoothness of a function reduced?
Where are the bugs in a FORTRAN implementation?

The primary documentation of MICROSCOPE is the manual which was obtained by transforming the original ASCII file into an html file.

The main contents of this page are lists of links to the documentation and source of the package.

Microscope underwent several incarnations during the early eighties. The final code was written by Peter Alfeld and Bill Harris, and finished in 1984. The manual was published as

Peter Alfeld and Bill Harris: Microscope: A software system for multivariate analysis, MRC Technical Summary Report #2701, June 1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The code and documentation is also available from netlib.

Links to Documentation

Note: Clicking on the title underneath the alphanumerical version of a figure produces a postscript version of the < PLOT79> version of the Figure.

Links to Program Package

Fine print, your comments, more links, Peter Alfeld, PA1MI

[16-Aug-1996]