- From: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:46:57 +1100
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: SVG List <www-svg@w3.org>
Hello David, The argument about representing curved objects such as rivers was not made by me. It is a regurgitation of the arguments made for arcs in the syntax. If there is a case to render elliptic arcs by the technique of bezier approximation, the corollary is that elliptic arcs are not required in the path syntax as is the case for SVG Tiny. Don't shoot the messenger. The assertion regarding accuracy of the mapping is correct as supported by the failing implementations. Best, Alex --Original Message--: >Alex Danilo wrote: > >> The entire point of having arcs in the path syntax is to have >> accurate curves for things like rivers in maps, etc, etc. We do not > >I've never heard of any theory of physical geography that predicts that >rivers will follow true circular arcs. Surely an arc is just as much an >approximation of the path of a river as is a Bezier. > >-- >David Woolley >Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. >RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, >that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. > >
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