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A Primer on Bézier Curves

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Welcome to the Primer on Bezier Curves. This is a free website/ebook dealing with both the maths and programming aspects of Bezier Curves, covering a wide range of topics relating to drawing and working with that curve that seems to pop up everywhere, from Photoshop paths to CSS easing functions to Font outline descriptions. If this is your first time here: welcome! Let me know if you were looking for anything in particular that the primer doesn't cover over on the issue tracker! If this is a resource that you're using for research, as work reference, or even writing your own software, please consider donating (any amount helps) or signing up as a patron on Patreon. I don't get paid to work on this, so if you find this site valuable, and you'd like it to stick around for a long time to come, a lot of coffee went into writing this over the years, and a lot more coffee will need to go into it yet: if you can spare a coffee, you'd be helping keep a resource alive and well. Also, if you ar

A Primer on Bézier Curves custom element. Note that we're not defering this: we just want it to kick in as soon as possible, and given how much HTML there is, that means this can, and thus should, kick in before the document is done even transferring. --> DEV PREVIEW ONLY Preface In order to draw things in 2D, we usually rely on lines, which typically get classified into two categories: straight lines, and curves. The first of these are as easy to draw as they are easy to make a computer draw. Give a computer the first and last point in the line, and BAM! straight line. No questions asked. Cur

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