Curvature Beziers – Improving on a timeless recipe

(acko.net)

22 points | by boxed 5 days ago

1 comments

  • adamschwartz 1 hour ago
    What an amazing resource.

    I’ve been building a vector editor that by default draws shapes with smooth curvature and shows the comb. [1] In addition to the four point types mentioned in the article, you get a new “curve” point type. I’ve also been making a font editor with the same drawing capability. [2]

    Both are free static web apps that use local storage and have import/export capability for SVG files (and OTF files for the font editor).

    [1] https://svg.a10z.co/editor

    [2] https://svg.a10z.co/font

    • gadgetoid 40 minutes ago
      Well that’s wild because I had a disagreement with beziers recently and did a similar thing! [1] albeit with more madness and less polish. Driven by the a/s/d/f keys with find edges snap to reference images and curve fitting to construction geometry.

      Feel I should also call out Freyr’s videos for anyone who has missed them - continuity of splines [2] and the beauty of Bézier curves [3]

      [1] https://gadgetoid.github.io/asdf

      [2] https://youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds

      [3] https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw