[chiplotle-discuss] bezier curves

[Victor Adan]

hello Francesco,

This is fantastic!! We have been thinking about implementing something like this, and now you have done it!

I'll take a careful look at the code and add it to the repository.

best,

Victor.


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:18:36AM +0100, francesco fantoni wrote:
> As in HPGL/1 there are no bezier curves as far as I know, I was thinking
> about a chiplote compound command in order to aproximate a bezier.
> I've written a first implementation, and it seems to work.
> the compound command is 'Bezier(list)', where list is a list of tuples.
> Each tuple contains the absolute coordinates of bezier curve's control
> points.
> I'm using PA commands to plot the sequence of aproximated points
> calculated by the routine, probably circle arcs could be used in a more
> sophisticated way, but I think it's way too complex for me.
> I include an image of my test, showing some variations of a curve with
> some control point in common, and some 20 curves drawn with random
> control points.
> Maybe it's interesting.
> (obviously bezier.py goes in chiplotle-trunk/chiplotle/hpgl/compound/) 
> 
> best regards,
> francesco

> from chiplotle.hpgl.compound.compound import _CompoundHPGL
> from chiplotle.hpgl.commands import PU, PD, PA
> from chiplotle.hpgl.scalable import Scalable
> from chiplotle.utils.geometry import *
> 
> 
> class Bezier(_CompoundHPGL):
> 	'''Bezier curve aproximation'''
> 	def __init__(self, control_points):
> 		self.control_points = control_points
> 		xy = self.control_points[0]
> 		_CompoundHPGL.__init__(self, xy) 
> 
> 
> 		def pascal_row(n):
> 			# This returns the nth row of Pascal's Triangle
> 			result=[1]
> 			x,numerator=1,n
> 			for denominator in range(1,n//2+1):
> 				# print(numerator,denominator,x)
> 				x*=numerator
> 				x/=denominator
> 				result.append(x)
> 				numerator-=1
> 			if n&1==0:
> 				# n is even
> 				result.extend(reversed(result[:-1]))
> 			else:
> 				result.extend(reversed(result)) 
> 			return result
> 
> 	
> 		self.n=len(self.control_points)
> 		self.combinations=pascal_row(self.n-1)
> 
> 		# This uses the generalized formula for bezier curves
> 		# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Generalization
> 		self.plot_points=[]
> 		ts=[t/100.0 for t in range(101)]
> 		for t in ts:
> 			tpowers=(t**i for i in range(self.n))
> 			upowers=reversed([(1-t)**i for i in range(self.n)])
> 			coefs=[c*a*b for c,a,b in zip(self.combinations,tpowers,upowers)]
> 			self.plot_points.append(tuple(sum([coef*p for coef,p in zip(coefs,ps)]) for ps in zip(*self.control_points)))
> 		self.plot_points_int=[]
> 		for point in self.plot_points:
> 			self.plot_points_int.append((int(point[0]),int(point[1])))
> 
> 
> 	@property
> 	def _subcommands(self):
> 
> 		result = _CompoundHPGL._subcommands.fget(self)
> 		result.append( PU( ) )
> 		result.append( PA(self.plot_points_int[0]) )
> 		result.append( PD() )
> 		for point_tuple in self.plot_points_int:
> 			result.append( PA(point_tuple) )
> 		result.append( PU() )
> 
> 		return result

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