From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2803 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Bezier curves Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 21:48:29 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000923214829.013ba970@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.5.32.20000923120647.00a1d100@mail.northcoast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393577 11944 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:19:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: David Arnold In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000923120647.00a1d100@mail.northcoast.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2803 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2803 At 12:06 PM 9/23/00 -0700, David Arnold wrote: >Are these Bezier curves that are used by Metapost and described in Hans' >Metafun manual? The thingies with the control points, etc? Yes. >If so, is their a nice paper on the net describing the mathematics of these >curves and their application? Maybe something involving linear algebra? >Something on a level that an introductory linear algebra student could >understand? Looks like a good term project for a student. See extra metafun text i sent you -) concerning literature, maybe the postscript ref manual, but i don't have it here now Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------