MATLAB: What is wrong with the code ,why i am getting exactly same output and plot for spline and cubic

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I am trying to write a code for reconstruction of signal in matlab using interpolation technique but i am getting same output/plot for both interpolation types as shown in last plot of code. My code is below:
clc
clear all
close all
t= 0:0.001:1;
fm= 10
fs= 8*48
x= sin(2*pi*fm*t)     % Message Signal
% Plotting discrete time sampled signal x[n]
% Pulse Traain
d= 0:1/50:1;
y= pulstran(t,d,'rectpuls',0.001)
% Sampling
z= x.*y
%  Non-uniformly quantize the discrete time signal using u-law companding
%    method, u= 100 and number of bits= 8.
% Quantization
N= 8
V= max(x)
u= 100
compsig= compand(x,u,V,'mu/compressor');
L= 2.^N
D= [max(compsig)-min(compsig)]./(L-1);
quants= quant(compsig,D);
xq= compand(quants,u,max(quants),'mu/expander')
% Encode the Signal into discrete levels.
H_e= dsp.UniformEncoder(max(xq),N);
encoder= step(H_e,xq)
%  Decoding the signal from discrete level and reconstruct using spline and cubic 
%    interpolation to reconstruct the analog signal x'(t) from the
%    discrete time signal using $t= 0.001.
H_d= dsp.UniformDecoder(max(xq),N);
decoder= step(H_d,encoder)
% Cubic Interpolation
time= 0:0.0001:1;
ci= interp1(t,decoder,time,'cubic')
% Spline interpolation
time=0:0.0001:1
si= interp1(t,decoder,time,'spline')
figure(01)
subplot(2,1,1)
plot(t,x,'R','LineWidth',2)
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('x')
title('Message Signal')
subplot(2,1,2)
plot(t,y,'B','LineWidth',2)
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('y')
title('Pulse Train')
figure(02)
subplot(2,1,1)
plot(t,z,'C','LineWidth',2)
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('z')
title('Sampled Signal')
subplot(2,1,2)
plot(t,xq,'G','LineWidth',2)
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('xq')
title('Quantized Signal')
figure(03)
subplot(2,1,1)
plot(t,encoder,'M','LineWidth',2)
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('encoder')
title('Encoded Signal')
subplot(2,1,2)
plot(t,decoder,'K','LineWidth',2)
ylim([-1 1])
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('decoder')
title('Decoded Signal')
figure(04)
subplot(2,1,1)
plot(time,ci,'B','LineWidth',2)
ylim([-1 1])
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('ci')
title('Cubic Interpolation')
subplot(2,1,2)
plot(time,ci,'R',time,si,'G')
xlabel('Time')
ylabel('Amplitude')
legend('si')
title('Spline & cubic Interpolation')
How can i see difference in output/plots of both types of interpolation?

Best Answer

A spline is a cubic interpolation between points with the added requirement that the slopes match at the knot points. Not sure what cubic does (if it has a slope matching requirement) but if the slopes are close to matching anyway, it might not make much difference.
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