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28 Jul 2024 18:23:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Q: Bezier control-point algo?  
From: Thomas Willhalm
Date: 13 Oct 1998 08:44:10
Message: <qqmg1csy9dh.fsf@goldach.fmi.uni-konstanz.de>
Vidar Madsen <vid### [at] prosalgno> writes:

> I'm writing a small app (is supposed) to spit out bezier
> patches. In that connection I need a quick-n-dirty algorithm
> to determine usable bezier control points based on a curve
> of linear segments. If anyone has source or description of
> such a thing, I'd be grateful if they would share their
> knowledge with me. :-)

A book that covers this topic is:

Su Bu-Qing and Liu Ding-Yuan
Computational Geometry
Curve and Surface Modeling
Academic Press 1989
ISBN 0-12-675610-4

> Hopefully this project will turn out to be similar to sPatch
> (but for Linux (or other *nixes)), but don't expect anything
> big quite yet.. ;-)

Yeah!

-- 
http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/~willhalm


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