Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’

Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Date	2019-04-20 10:44 -0700
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Subject	Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’
From	luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com>

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On Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 8:54:23 AM UTC-5, jdawisema...@gmail.com wrote:
> Perhaps the algorithm could make pieces, and somehow sew them together. 
> • For a straight line, the left-hand-out line is easy to compute. 
> • For a point, at which the angle of turn is known, it’s a part circle. 
> • For a curve, one could flattenpath. Or, neater, use the position and derivatives at the endpoints with https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.postscript/3RIq0Jnwrbo to make it’s curve. Perhaps recurse into splits of the original curve, until it’s not too curvy.
> 
> That gives a list of pieces. That can be cut at intersections, but it’s not yet obvious to me how to decide what to keep and what to bin. 
> 
> All very fiddly.

I just had a crazy thought: what if we could abuse 'strokepath' to do the work?
In a way, this is similar to the job 'strokepath' has to do. It takes a single
curve and generates two offset curves on either side (plus caps and joins).

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Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdawiseman.bloomberg@gmail.com - 2019-04-17 13:37 -0700
  Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ edspikechapman@gmail.com - 2019-04-19 08:55 -0700
    Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdawiseman.bloomberg@gmail.com - 2019-04-20 02:44 -0700
      Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ Carlos <carlos@cvkm.cz> - 2019-04-29 02:41 +0200
        Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2019-06-19 15:04 -0700
          Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 13:33 -0700
            Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 14:54 -0700
              Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 15:37 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-23 15:59 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-27 06:59 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-27 07:48 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-27 08:30 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-28 12:10 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-07-19 14:00 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-07-20 09:33 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-07-20 13:20 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2021-03-14 10:25 -0700
  Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdawiseman.bloomberg@gmail.com - 2019-04-20 06:54 -0700
    Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-20 10:44 -0700
      Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdawiseman.bloomberg@gmail.com - 2019-04-20 11:01 -0700
        Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-20 11:33 -0700
          Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-20 11:50 -0700
            Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-20 13:01 -0700
              Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ jdawiseman.bloomberg@gmail.com - 2019-04-21 03:29 -0700
                Re: Fierce and scary geometry algorithm for ‘ParallelPath’ luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-28 13:33 -0700

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