Bicubic Derivation

Starting with the equations of our two spline segments and their derivitives we can construct the two desired spline segments.

The resulting family of reconstruction filters is:


These bicubic reconstruction splines are commonly called

Mitchell's 2-parameter spline family

Notes:
    k(0)=(3 - B)/3,   k(1)=B/6
    thus, if B = 0 then k(0) = 1, k(1) = 0 like sinc(x)
Lecture 5   Slide 26   6.837 Fall '01