splinefit 0.4.1

B-spline curve fitting — pure-Rust Dierckx engine with Python bindings

splinefit

B-spline curve fitting for Python, powered by a native Rust engine. Fit smoothing, interpolating, or cardinal cubic splines to data and evaluate, integrate, or find roots -- with the same numerical accuracy as SciPy's FITPACK, at native speed.

Built from a pure-Rust translation of Paul Dierckx' classic FITPACK library (the same Fortran engine behind SciPy's splrep/splev).

Installation

pip install splinefit

Requires Python >= 3.9 and NumPy.

Quick start

import numpy as np
from splinefit import CubicSpline

# Sample data: sin(x) on [0, 2pi]
x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 50)
y = np.sin(x)

# Fit a smoothing spline (rms = 0.05)
spline = CubicSpline.smoothing(x, y, rms=0.05)
print(spline)  # CubicSpline(num_knots=11, domain=[0.000000, 6.283185])

# Evaluate at 200 points
x_new = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 200)
y_fit = spline.evaluate(x_new)

API

Constructors

All constructors take NumPy arrays (or array-like inputs) for x and y. x must be strictly increasing with at least 4 points.

CubicSpline.smoothing(x, y, rms)

Fit a smoothing spline. rms is the target root-mean-square residual in the same units as y. Smaller values produce more knots and a tighter fit.

spline = CubicSpline.smoothing(x, y, rms=0.05)

CubicSpline.interpolating(x, y)

Fit an interpolating spline that passes exactly through every data point.

spline = CubicSpline.interpolating(x, y)

CubicSpline.cardinal(x, y, dt)

Fit a spline on a fixed equidistant knot grid with spacing dt.

spline = CubicSpline.cardinal(x, y, dt=0.5)

Methods

spline.evaluate(x) -> numpy.ndarray

Evaluate the spline at each point in x.

y_fit = spline.evaluate(np.array([0.5, 1.0, 1.5]))

spline.integral(a, b) -> float

Compute the definite integral of the spline over [a, b].

area = spline.integral(0, np.pi)  # integral of sin(x) from 0 to pi ~ 2.0

spline.roots() -> numpy.ndarray

Find all interior zeros of the spline, returned in ascending order. Zeros at the domain boundaries may not be included.

zeros = spline.roots()  # e.g. array([3.14159...])

spline.knots() -> numpy.ndarray

Return the knot vector.

spline.coefficients() -> numpy.ndarray

Return the B-spline coefficients.

spline.num_knots -> int

Number of knots (property).

String representation

>>> spline
CubicSpline(num_knots=11, domain=[0.000000, 6.283185])

Comparison with SciPy

splinefit uses the same FITPACK algorithms as SciPy but compiled as a native Rust extension rather than wrapping Fortran via f2py. The API is simpler:

splinefit	SciPy equivalent
CubicSpline.smoothing(x, y, rms)	splrep(x, y, s=m*rms**2)
CubicSpline.interpolating(x, y)	splrep(x, y, s=0)
spline.evaluate(x)	splev(x, tck)
spline.integral(a, b)	splint(a, b, tck)
spline.roots()	sproot(tck)

How it works

This package is compiled from the Rust crate splinefit using PyO3 and maturin. It runs the same numerical algorithms as SciPy's FITPACK, translated line-by-line from Paul Dierckx' original Fortran into Rust.

License

Apache-2.0 OR MIT