Surfaces defined on surfaces

Abstract Two methods for constructing interpolants to data arbitrarily located on convex surfaces are presented. One is a modified Shepard's method [Barnhill, Piper & Rescorla'87] and the other is a triangular-based method. The latter is an extension of triangular-based methods on a sphere [Lawson '84], [Renka '84] and [Nielson & Ramaraj '87], to arbitrary convex surfaces. The two methods are compared both numerically and by means of color interactive computer graphics on a set of examples.