NAME

       c_natgrids - primary C entry for natural neighbor gridding

FUNCTION PROTOTYPE

       float *c_natgrids(int, float [], float [], float [],
                         int, int, float [], float [], int *);

SYNOPSIS

       float *c_natgrids (npnts, x, y, z, numxout, numyout, xi, yi, ier);

DESCRIPTION

       npnts       The number of input data points. (npnts > 3).

       x           An array containing the x coordinates of the input data points.

       y           An array containing the y coordinates of the input data points.

       z           An  array  containing the functional values of the input data points. That is,
                   z[m] is the value of the input function at coordinate (x[m],y[m]), for 0 <=  m
                   < npnts.

       numxout     The number of x values in the output grid.

       numyout     The number of y values in the output grid.

       xi          An  array of dimension numxout containing the x coordinates of the output data
                   grid. The values in xi must be increasing, but need not be equally spaced.

       yi          An array of dimension numyout containing the y coordinates of the output  data
                   grid. The values in yi must be increasing, but need not be equally spaced.

       ier         An  error  value.  If  *ier is returned as 0, then no errors were detected. If
                   *ier is non-zero, then refer to the man page for natgrid_errors for details.

USAGE

       c_natgrids returns a pointer to a linear array of  data  that  is  the  interpolated  grid
       stored in row-major order. That is, if out is declared as

       float *out;

       and we set:

         out = c_natgrids(numin, x, y, z, numxout, numyout, xo, yo, &ier);

       then out[i*numyout+j] is the interpolated function value at coordinate point (xo[i],yo[j])
       for 0 <= i < numxout and 0 <= j < numyout. The space for  out  is  allocated  internal  to
       c_natgrids and is numxout*numyout floats in size.

ACCESS

       To use c_natgrids, load the NCAR Graphics library ngmath.

SEE ALSO

       natgrid, natgrid_params, c_nnseti, c_nngeti, c_nnsetr, c_nngetr, c_nnsetc, c_nngetc.

       Complete documentation for Natgrid is available at URL
       http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ngdoc/ng/ngmath/natgrid/nnhome.html

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000
       University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

       The use of this Software is governed by a License Agreement.