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Jan 27 2022

Cubic Bezier Curves in JTS

Dr JTS

As the title of this blog indicates, I'm a fan of linearity.  But sometimes a little non-linearity makes things more interesting.  A convenient way to generate non-linear curved lines is to use Bezier Curves.  Bezier Curves are curves defined by polynomials.  Bezier curves can be defined for...

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Dec 23 2021

Christmas Wrapping

Dr JTS

Every so often I produce an image in the JTS TestBuilder which strikes me as worthy of capture.  Here's one that seems pretty seasonal:It is generated like this:Produce two sets of 1000 random points roughly aligned with a gridCompute their fully-eroded Convex HullsCompute the intersection of the...

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