> On 18 Sep 2016, at 14:41, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: > > On 18.09.2016 13:54, Andrew Bernard wrote:
>> What is it exactly that you are expecting a quartic to give you? > > Oh, I think you’re quite overestimating the amount of in-depth mathematical > background I had – I just thought: ‘A 3rd order Bézier curve can have one > turning point, but I need two turning points, so I’d need a 4th order > Bézier’. Which I now see is wrong, after some experimenting with the > interactive fields in that article you linked: it requires a 5th order Bézier > for that, and then it already gets quite unhandy. Curves of higher polynomial order did not catch on, because they are not stable: small changes in the input variables can sometimes cause dramatic effects in the output curve. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user