Rational iterated function system for positive/monotonic shape preservation

In this paper we consider the (inverse) problem of determining the iterated function system (IFS) which produces a shaped fractal interpolant. We develop a new type of rational IFS by using functions of the form EiFi , where Ei are cubics and Fi are preassigned quadratics having 3-shape parameters. The fixed point of the developed rational cubic IFS is in C1, but its derivative varies from a piecewise differentiable function to a continuous nowhere differentiable function. An upper bound of the uniform error between the fixed point of a rational IFS and an original function φ ∈ C4 is deduced for the convergence results. The automatic generations of the scaling factors and shape parameters in the rational IFS are formulated so that its fixed point preserves the positive/monotonic features of prescribed data. The presence of scaling factors provides additional freedom to the shape of the fractal interpolant over its classical counterpart in the modeling of discrete data. © 2014 Chand et al.; licensee Springer.