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Am 19.05.2016 um 16:10 schrieb LanuHum:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
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>> I doubt the designers of car bodies use Bezier splines -- their weapon
>> of choice are NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines); AFAIK those do
>> have the capacity to precisely represent circular arcs.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve
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[quote from Wikipedia, not clipka]
>> known since 1912, but its applicability to graphics was not realized for
>> Renault. The study of these curves was however first developed in 1959 by
>> mathematician Paul de Casteljau using de Casteljau's algorithm, a numerically
Yes, the /invention/ of Bezier curves was driven by the French
automotive industry.
But as the article also notes, that was around _1960_.
Car body quality requirements have increased quite a lot since then.
Note how the "Applications" section in that article lists computer
graphics, animation and fonts, but /not/ [contemporary] automotive design.
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