The 4 species of bezier curves

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According to this paper,

https://www.cad-journal.net/files/vol_11/CAD_11(5)_2014_568-578.pdf

there are only 4 kinds of bezier curve. All bezier curves
can be decomposed into affine combinations of the 4 primitive
curves.

The math is pretty heavy tho

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