ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Radial interpolation

Radial interpolation is when we take a point and figure out what color it should be based on the colors of the points around it. Imagine you have a coloring book and there are little dots all over the page that you need to color in. To make it look nice, you don't want each dot to be a different color that doesn't match the colors around it. Instead, you could look at the colors of the dots closest to the one you need to color in and use a mix of those colors to color in your dot.

This is a bit like radial interpolation. We take a point on a graph, and we look at the points closest to it. We figure out what colors those points should be, and then we use that information to decide what color the point we're looking at should be.

For example, let's say we're looking at a map of temperatures. We know that the temperature in one area is 70 degrees, and we want to figure out what the temperature would be if we moved 5 miles to the east. We could look at the temperatures in the areas closest to the point 5 miles to the east, and use that information to make an educated guess as to what the temperature would be.

So in short, radial interpolation is when we use information from surrounding points to figure out what a certain point should be. It's like coloring in a coloring book or guessing at the temperature on a map.