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Benzier, Bezier, Blah

One of the original ideas behind Chroma was a bezier based drawing system that was animated. "Moho (by Lost Marble) without the pesky rendering process," I claimed. Unfourtunatly, I didn't know anything about how to program them, despite I used them a great deal in my artwork.

Then I found http://www.moshplant.com/direct-or/bezier/, and it didn't seem so complicated anymore. The one problem with this system is that one needs an editor to create the curves. GIMP, I found, has a very easily defined path file format. So now that problem is solved.

Still, the math I found is still too slow to make into an algorithm directly. I first need to derive some iterative process so that finding points has a minimum number of operations (outside of inital, of course). Then there's figuring out how to fill closed bezier shapes...

Posted by Solstice 2002-03-15

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