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From: ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bezier Curve source required
Message-ID: <340@helios.prosys.se>
Date: 31 Jan 89 06:50:03 GMT
References: <30936@vax1.tcd.ie> <879@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> <13960@ico.ISC.COM>
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In article <13960@ico.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes:
>
>> A related question (I think it's just the inverted algorithm...):
>> 
>> I'm looking for a program that calculates the so called
>> Bezier cubic control points when giving a number of points 
>> that should be placed in the resulting Bezier cubic section.
>
> [...] I
>decided that I was too lazy to work it through, but I *would* like to see
>how it is done.

I think that something along these lines is done in MetaFont. Check
out Computers and Typesetting, vol IV by Knuth.
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