Curvature Beziers – Improving on a timeless recipe

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adamschwartz•about 5 hours 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•about 4 hours 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

Fraterkes•about 2 hours ago

I shouldn’t tell you this, cause I’m also working on a font editor, but I’d consider looking into Raph Levien’s Hyperbezier work

Curvature Beziers – Improving on a timeless recipe

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