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How the following cubic spline function is derived?

Submitted by V.Gnanaraj on

In most of the research papers on meshless methods the following cubic spline function is used as weighting function.

 w(y) = 0  if y < -2,

w(y) =1/6(y+2)^3  ,    if -2 < y < -1 

w(y) =  2/3 – y^2(1 + y/2) ,  if   -1 < y < 0

w(y)=   2/3 -y^2(1 - y/2) , if   0 < y < 1

w(y) = -1/6 (y – 2 )^3  ,   if    1 < y < 2

w(y) = 0 if y >2