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So it's a histogram of 100 bars, forced into a spline in SVG to make it look like it has more detail than it does.

That's the big picture idea.

I knew that polynomial curve fitting results in overshoots like that, but didn't think that splines had that problem.

Splines are polynomials after all. Also, not every spline has this problem. The one YouTube is using is Cardinal spline.