From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11584 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: MetaPost/Fun question Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:59:40 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <313833401.20030322215940@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048367059 11056 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 21:04:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat Mar 22 22:04:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wqA5-0002sC-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:04:18 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF1010B12; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:04:25 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.127]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A3310AB6 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:01:30 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from [151.29.130.189] (151.29.130.189) by smtp3.libero.it (6.7.015) id 3E44E9670106889B for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:01:31 +0100 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.63 Beta/7) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11584 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11584 Hello, I would like to know if it is possible in MetaPost (in particular MetaFun) to get all the possible intersection points of the paths, with some kind of simple command, with a syntax like, say: A[] := path1 intersections path2 (where the resulting list could be either a list of points or a list of time pairs, like for intersectiontimes). Another possible syntax could be path3 := path1 intersections path2 which would give a path for which times 0, 1, 2, 3, ... give the first, second, third, fourth, ... intersection point. Anything like this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta