Re: Help on Bezier curves

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Christophe Ponsard wrote:
> 
> Could anyone point me to some ref/example on how to program
> a Bezier curve, especially wrt to the use of BezPoint in the fill_bezier
> and draw_bezier function of the diarenderer ?
> (I am trying to render "cloud" figure ;-)

It's a bit funky.  There's some explanation in lib/geometry.h, and a
generic implementation using lines in lib/diarenderer.c.  To create a new
bezier object, look at the example in plug-ins/xfig/xfig-import.c, which
creates a bezier curve from xfig format.

-Lars

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