> What's confusing me is the whole curve fitting aspect of a path. > I'm just not understanding what the values for say a C really mean. > If I have M20,20 C80,40 70,80 80,200 does the path actually go > through 80,40 and 70,80 or are those just used for influencing the > curve, and if so, how does it do that.
The curve you describe above goes through 20,20 and 80,200 - 80,40 and 70,80 are describing the two points that are the ends of the tangent describing the cubic spline. Think of them as the two control points that you use in drawing packages, such as Illustrator, Corel or Inkscape. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/paths/cubic02.svg illustrates cubic splines For your purpose (smoothing a curve) the quadratic splines (just one control point) - see http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/paths/quad01.svg would probably work better. All details are in the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/paths.html Andreas ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
