Ageneralprocedureforconstructingmultivariatenon-tensor-productwaveletsthatgen-erateanorthogonaldecompositionofL~2(R~),s≥1,isdescribedandappliedtoyieldexplicitformulasforcompactlysupportedspline-waveletsbasedonthemultiresolutionanalysisofL~2(R~s),1≤s≤3,generatedbyanyboxsplinewhosedirectionsetconstitutesaunimodularmatrix.Inparticular,whenunivariatecardinalB-splinesareconsidered,theminimallysup-portedcardinalspline-waveletsofChuiandWangarerecovered.Arefinedcomputationalschemefortheorthogonalizationofspaceswithcompactlysupportedwaveletsisgiven.Arecursiveapproximationschemefor“truncated”decompositionsequencesisdevelopedandasharperrorboundisincluded.Aconditiononthesymmetryoranti-symmetryofthewaveletsisappliedtoyieldsymmetricbox-splinewavelets.
