http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Casteljau%27s_algorithm
has a Python example implementation of qubic Bezier curves available. Claudio "Warren Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm fairly new to Python (2-3 months) and I'm trying to figure out a simple > way to implement Bezier curves... So far I've tried the following: > > http://runten.tripod.com/NURBS/ > ...which won't work because the only compiled binaries are for Windows 2000, > python 2.1. I'm on Windows XP (for now), using Python 2.4. I downloaded > the source distribution, but the header files aren't included, so I'm not > sure how to compile it. > > It appears there's some bezier functionality in the python that comes > Blender... but I'm not savvy enough yet to try and extract whatever makes > beziers work there, to make it work in my general-purpose Python programs. > > Basically, I'd like to specify a curved path of an object through space. 3D > space would be wonderful, but I could jimmy-rig something if I could just > get 2D... Are bezier curves really what I want after all? > > Any thoughts would be much appreciated. I've got some ideas I want to test, > but if I can't find a simple implementation of curves, I'm going to get so > bogged down in trying to do that part, I'll never get to what I'm excited > about. :-P > > Warren > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
