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From: larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bezier Interpolation
Keywords: Splines, interploation
Message-ID: <3710@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 18:40:20 GMT
References: <21535@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <7232@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1910@gannet.cl.cam.ac.uk> <1295@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
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In article <1295@chinacat.Unicom.COM> woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) writes:
>I've given considerable thought to this problem (tracing curves), and it 
>seems to me, that one can classify any 4 points in a set of data points
>(provided they are close enough to a straight line), as sets of control/data
>points. 

Sure, but you've already stated the drawback: the data points have to
be nearly in a straight line for this to work.  If that's the case, why not
just approximate with a line segment?  Your approach would result in lots of
nearly-flat Bezier segments.

Am I missing something here?

-- 
Larry Spence
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