On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:33:36 -0500 "Warren Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
NURBS are not actually Bezier curves, AFAIK, they are a superset of some kind (which means they're probably better to use, but harder to implement). > 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. Not a specific recommendation, and I don't know if it's any more comprehensible, but you will find that Skencil also implements Bezier curves (in 2D). Skencil is mostly in Python, but uses a lot of C, so I don't know if it handles beziers in Python or C (I'm still learning my way around the code, myself). Inkscape, of course, does too, but in C. http://www.inkscape.org > 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? Or NURBS, yeah, probably. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
