1 Creating paths with MetaPost-like parameters
3 Some simple paths are created by prescribing five points on the path. The
4 curves between them are automatically chosen such that the result looks smooth. ...
6 Instead of constructing paths from their path elements, where all control
7 points must be given explicitly, we here specify only five points which must
8 lie on the path. The remaining control points are then internally determined by
9 the constraint that the curve should look smooth.
11 In the first curve, the geometrical constraints are the following. The three
12 interior points have a continuous tangent and a continuous curvature. The two
13 end points demand a curvature not too different from that at their neighbor
14 (second/fourth point).
16 For the closed curve, all points are of the continuous type.
18 ! The algorithm for calculating the curves comes from MetaPost. In the syntax
19 of MetaPost, the above example corresponds to the commands
21 draw((0,0)..(2,1.33)..(1.3,3)..(0.33,2.33)..(1,1.67));
22 draw((0,0)..(2,1.33)..(1.3,3)..(0.33,2.33)..(1,1.67)..cycle);