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one .. small.. path for (a) mancwright@phendrana:~/projects/disasm/bezier>./bezier 2009-03-26 15:10:56.603 bezier[20625:10b] elementCount: 21 2009-03-26 15:10:56.606 bezier[20625:10b] * 0: MoveTo 9.895508, -6.952148 2009-03-26 15:10:56.607 bezier[20625:10b] * 1: CurveTo 12.053223,-5.761230 via 10.944341,-6.952148 and 11.663572,-6.555180 2009-03-26 15:10:56.609 bezier[20625:10b] * 2: CurveTo 12.637695,-3.111328 via 12.442873,-4.967281 and 12.637695,-4.083989 2009-03-26 15:10:56.610 bezier[20625:10b] * 3: CurveTo 12.215820,-0.966797 via 12.637695,-2.232417 and 12.497071,-1.517581 2009-03-26 15:10:56.612 bezier[20625:10b] * 4: CurveTo 9.913086,0.333984 via 11.770506,-0.099605 and 11.002935,0.333984 2009-03-26 15:10:56.614 bezier[20625:10b] * 5: CurveTo 7.803711,-0.773438 via 8.946284,0.333984 and 8.243166,-0.035152 2009-03-26 15:10:56.617 bezier[20625:10b] * 6: CurveTo 7.144531,-3.445312 via 7.364255,-1.511723 and 7.144531,-2.402339 2009-03-26 15:10:56.619 bezier[20625:10b] * 7: CurveTo 7.803711,-5.950195 via 7.144531,-4.447270 and 7.364255,-5.282223 2009-03-26 15:10:56.620 bezier[20625:10b] * 8: CurveTo 9.895508,-6.952148 via 8.243166,-6.618168 and 8.940425,-6.952148 2009-03-26 15:10:56.622 bezier[20625:10b] * 9: Close 8.243166,-6.618168 2009-03-26 15:10:56.624 bezier[20625:10b] * 10: MoveTo 9.957031, 1.713867 2009-03-26 15:10:56.625 bezier[20625:10b] * 11: CurveTo 13.033203,0.500977 via 11.169928,1.713867 and 12.195309,1.309574 2009-03-26 15:10:56.627 bezier[20625:10b] * 12: CurveTo 14.290039,-3.067383 via 13.871098,-0.307621 and 14.290039,-1.497063 2009-03-26 15:10:56.628 bezier[20625:10b] * 13: CurveTo 13.182617,-6.829102 via 14.290039,-4.584969 and 13.920902,-5.838862 2009-03-26 15:10:56.630 bezier[20625:10b] * 14: CurveTo 9.746094,-8.314453 via 12.444332,-7.819342 and 11.298836,-8.314453 2009-03-26 15:10:56.631 bezier[20625:10b] * 15: CurveTo 6.661133,-7.000488 via 8.451165,-8.314453 and 7.422855,-7.876469 2009-03-26 15:10:56.633 bezier[20625:10b] * 16: CurveTo 5.518555,-3.471680 via 5.899410,-6.124508 and 5.518555,-4.948250 2009-03-26 15:10:56.635 bezier[20625:10b] * 17: CurveTo 6.722656,0.307617 via 5.518555,-1.889641 and 5.919918,-0.629888 2009-03-26 15:10:56.636 bezier[20625:10b] * 18: CurveTo 9.957031,1.713867 via 7.525394,1.245122 and 8.603509,1.713867 2009-03-26 15:10:56.639 bezier[20625:10b] * 19: Close 7.525394,1.245122 2009-03-26 15:10:56.660 bezier[20625:10b] * 20: MoveTo 15.010742, -7.971680 That, while not totally obvious, is the letter 'o'. In Bezier paths. This concludes part 1 of 4 in The Quest To Make 3D Text. (Part 2 is Evaluating the splines (easy), Part 3 is Tessellating the resultant N-gons (medium), and Part 4 is Extrusion (medium-hard)). |
No kidding. Congrats!
ha, just as i get a first version of spk-calligraphy together. if this could output a structure, that would be interesting. coincentally, met alx today and talked about just that thing - 'spread' generating patches.
http://tobyz.net/tobyzstuff/diary/2009/03/kinetxt-handwriting-dev
...now if only i could anti-alias GL_QUAD_STRIPs, why oh why doesn't it work!
Just Part One is great on it's own. If this could feed to a structure of splines and spline structure can feed into a into renderer patch (which maybe KinGL has already – still studying these patches)... sky's the limit.
Remember seeing some really nice animation of glyphs in nodebox or similar where the component curve segments of characters got iterated over and occasional points randomly translated in time. Shape had a fill too which added to affect.
Fill option on Line/Spline structures could be a nice addition to GL Patches if not there already.