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#1 2010-08-08 23:29:04

luca-deltodesco
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normal displaced cubic bezier, what type of curve is it?

Given a 2d cubic bezier curve:

define a new curve:

for some constant x, aka the curve resulting from displacing the cubic bezier curve c a constant amount along it's normal.

I've determined that the derivative of the new curve is:

which is correct, and this is how i determined the curve 'd' isn't a cubic bezier, by the fact that attempting to render it as one given start end points and tangents results in a totally different curve from an approximation of d directly.

Is d perhaps a rational bezier curve?

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