I am trying to fit a smoothing B-spline to some data and I found this very helpful post on here. However, I not only need the spline, but also its derivatives, so I tried to add the following code to the example:
tck_der = interpolate.splder(tck, n=1)
x_der, y_der, z_der = interpolate.splev(u_fine, tck_der)
For some reason this does not seem to work due to some data type issues. I get the following traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "interpolate_point_trace.py", line 31, in spline_example
tck_der = interpolate.splder(tck, n=1)
File "/home/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scipy/interpolate/fitpack.py", line 657, in splder
return _impl.splder(tck, n)
File "/home/user/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scipy/interpolate/_fitpack_impl.py", line 1206, in splder
sh = (slice(None),) + ((None,)*len(c.shape[1:]))
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'shape'
The reason for this seems to be that the second argument of the tck tuple contains a list of numpy arrays. I thought turning the input data to be a numpy array as well would help, but it does not change the data types of tck.
Does this behavior reflect an error in scipy, or is the input malformed?
I tried manually turning the list into an array:
tck[1] = np.array(tck[1])
but this (which didn't surprise me) also gave an error:
ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shapes (0,8) (7,1)
Any ideas of what the problem could be? I have used scipy before and on 1D splines the splder function works just fine, so I assume it has something to do with the spline being a line in 3D.
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Here is a minimum working example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy import interpolate
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
total_rad = 10
z_factor = 3
noise = 0.1
num_true_pts = 200
s_true = np.linspace(0, total_rad, num_true_pts)
x_true = np.cos(s_true)
y_true = np.sin(s_true)
z_true = s_true / z_factor
num_sample_pts = 80
s_sample = np.linspace(0, total_rad, num_sample_pts)
x_sample = np.cos(s_sample) + noise * np.random.randn(num_sample_pts)
y_sample = np.sin(s_sample) + noise * np.random.randn(num_sample_pts)
z_sample = s_sample / z_factor + noise * np.random.randn(num_sample_pts)
tck, u = interpolate.splprep([x_sample, y_sample, z_sample], s=2)
x_knots, y_knots, z_knots = interpolate.splev(tck[0], tck)
u_fine = np.linspace(0, 1, num_true_pts)
x_fine, y_fine, z_fine = interpolate.splev(u_fine, tck)
# this is the part of the code I inserted: the line under this causes the crash
tck_der = interpolate.splder(tck, n=1)
x_der, y_der, z_der = interpolate.splev(u_fine, tck_der)
# end of the inserted code
fig2 = plt.figure(2)
ax3d = fig2.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
ax3d.plot(x_true, y_true, z_true, 'b')
ax3d.plot(x_sample, y_sample, z_sample, 'r*')
ax3d.plot(x_knots, y_knots, z_knots, 'go')
ax3d.plot(x_fine, y_fine, z_fine, 'g')
fig2.show()
plt.show()
Stumbled into the same problem...
I circumvented the error by using interpolate.splder(tck, n=1) and instead used interpolate.splev(spline_ev, tck, der=1) which returns the derivatives at the points spline_ev (see Scipy Doku).
If you need the spline I think you can then use interpolate.splprep() again.
In total something like:
import numpy as np
from scipy import interpolate
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
points = np.random.rand(10,2) * 10
(tck, u), fp, ier, msg = interpolate.splprep(points.T, s=0, k=3, full_output=True)
spline_ev = np.linspace(0.0, 1.0, 100, endpoint=True)
spline_points = interpolate.splev(spline_ev, tck)
# Calculate derivative
spline_der_points = interpolate.splev(spline_ev, tck, der=1)
spline_der = interpolate.splprep(spline_der_points.T, s=0, k=3, full_output=True)
# Plot the data and derivative
fig = plt.figure()
plt.plot(points[:,0], points[:,1], '.-', label="points")
plt.plot(spline_points[0], spline_points[1], '.-', label="tck")
plt.plot(spline_der_points[0], spline_der_points[1], '.-', label="tck_der")
# Show tangent
plt.arrow(spline_points[0][23]-spline_der_points[0][23], spline_points[1][23]-spline_der_points[1][23], 2.0*spline_der_points[0][23], 2.0*spline_der_points[1][23])
plt.legend()
plt.show()
I also opened an Issue on Github and according to ev-br the usage of interpolate.splprep is depreciated and one should use make_interp_spline / BSpline instead.