It is widely regarded as impossible to estimate curvature on four points in rectangular array. This
paper presents equations that estimate curvature on such data. One of the equations is analogous to the
parabola for three equidistant, curvilinear data. The other equations are based on exponential functions.
They are usually superior to the bilinear equation if the L2 norm test is the criterion of merit. @ 1998
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