Bezier curves and anti-aliasing

[Johnny_Bit]

1. how calculate where should be positioned points and control points in bezier curve (windows implementation), so the curve would go trouught specified list of points?

2. How to anti-alias that curve, so it would look smooth?

[Stefan]

As for question no.1 check out this article:

http://groups.google.nl/groups?hl=nl&lr=&selm=3666E4C4.6F65%40math.okstate.edu&rnum=5

Cheers,
Stefan

[Johnny_Bit]

OK, got tat, bu how about this whole anti-aliasing thing?

[Stefan]

indeed

umm, would anti-aliasing the line-pieces of the curve be enough?

[Johnny_Bit]

I quite don't understand...

[Stefan]

Here's some code I use in TExtGraph to get all the line-parts of a bézier curve:

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  BeginPath(Canvas.Handle);
  PolyBezier(Canvas.Handle, points, 4);
  EndPath(Canvas.Handle);
  FlattenPath(Canvas.Handle);
  NumLine := getpath(Canvas.Handle, lpPoints, lpTypes, 0);
  setlength(lppoints, NumLine);
  setlength(lptypes, NumLine);
  GetPath(Canvas.Handle, lppoints[0], lptypes[0], NumLine);
  for i := 0 to NumLine-1 do begin
    case lpTypes[i] of
      PT_MOVETO: Canvas.MoveTo(lppoints[i].x, lppoints[i].y);
      PT_LINETO: Canvas.LineTo(lppoints[i].x, lppoints[i].y);
    end;
  end;


after this you could (in the for-loop) anti-alias all the lines...