Fitting polynomial curve

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/17/2011 1:42 AM, Astan Chee wrote:
> Hi,
> I have 2 points in 3D space and a bunch of points in-between them. I'm
> trying to fit a polynomial curve on it. Currently I'm looking through
> numpy but I don't think the function exists to fit a function like this:
> y = ax**4 + bx**3 + cx**2 + dx + e
> (I'm not sure what thats called but one degree up from a cubic curve)

quartic

> Also, I'm sure it'll take alot of time to brute force it like this but
> I'm sure I'm missing something for this.

Look at scipy.

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Terry Jan Reedy