[R] tensor product of equi-spaced B-splines in the unit square

[Patrizio Frederic]

Dear all,
I need to compute tensor product of B-spline defined over equi-spaced
break-points.
I wrote my own program (it works in a 2-dimensional setting)

library(splines)
# set the break-points
Knots   = seq(-1,1,length=10)
# number of splines
M       = (length(Knots)-4)^2
# short cut to splineDesign function
bspline = function(x) splineDesign(Knots,x,outer.ok = T)
# bivariate tensor product of bspline
btens   = function(x) t(bspline(x[1]))%*%bspline(x[2])
# numebr of points to plot
ng      = 51
# create vectors for plotting
xgr     = seq(-1,1,length=ng)
xgr2    = expand.grid(xgr,xgr)
# generate random coef. of linear combination
bet	  = rnorm(M)
# create matrix for contour-type plot
Bx      = apply(xgr2,1,btens)
Bmat    = matrix(t(Bx)%*%bet,ng)
# plot the result
contour(xgr,xgr,Bmat)
persp(xgr,xgr,Bmat,theta=15)

any of you have a better idea (ie more efficient)?
Thanks in advance,

Patrizio Frederic

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