 Chaikin basis function

This centered quadratic cardinal B-spline weights each original control ordinate at its uniformly spaced abscissa. Its translates sum to one. It and its first derivative match at half-integer knots, while the second derivative can jump. The limit graph is ${\sum }_i{y}_i\beta ((x-x_i)/h)$; one ordinate influences an interval of total length $3h$. Refinement of a quadratic adds $a{h}^2/4$ in the limit, yielding this basis by extending each three-point neighborhood quadratically.