Any royal road to Bezier curves...?

[Robert Kern]

Warren Francis 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.
> 
> 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... 

There's some 2D code (which could be trivially adapted to 3D) in
PIDDLE/Sping. In the latest Sping download, look in the file pid.py at
the Canvas.curvePoints() method.

  http://piddle.sourceforge.net/

> Are bezier curves really what I want after all?

I dunno. It depends on how much flexibility you need.

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