Was simply asking for the method to be named getControlPoints or
controlPoints or whatever the JTS naming convention is - I understand your
limits of funding :)
Jody Garnett
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> When you mention control points I think beizer curves, which have no
>>> place is this proposal, we'll only support arcs of circle (which is also
>>> written in the proposal,
>>>
>>
>> Control points for an arc or circle are always "three": start point, end
>> point and any point on the middle. Circle just has the start and end at the
>> same location. If you call the method control points from the start we can
>> grow the solution for other curves as funding is made available.
>>
>
> Would be nice, but I don't have resources to work on a more general
> algorithm.
> For arcs of circles it's pretty simple, you decide on a sampling rate,
> which is directly related to the max distance from the sample lines
> to the circle, and then you just use basic trigonometry to compute the
> sample points.
>
> To sample general curves instead one has to take into account the point by
> point varying curvature, which demands more complex sampling methods
> (there are several research papers on the subject).
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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