Near-best bivariate spline quasi-interpolants on a four-directional mesh of the plane

Spline quasi-interpolants (QIs) are practical and effective approximation operators. In this paper, we construct QIs with optimal approximation orders and small infinity norms called near-best discrete and integral quasi-interpolants which are based on $\Omega$-~splines, i.e. B-splines with regular lozenge supports on the uniform four directional mesh of the plane. These quasi-interpolants are obtained so as to be exact on some space of polynomials and to minimize an upper bound of their infinity norms which depend on a finite number of free parameters. We show that this problem has always a solution, which is not unique in general. Concrete examples of these types of quasi-interpolants are given in the last section