
After playing around with fillets on this thing: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8416 I was determined to create a generalized Bezier function for usage in OpenScad.This thing, or rather the OpenScad file, is public domain code for creating Bezier curves within OpenScad.It is a foundational piece. It will only create Bezier curves defined by 4 control points. Those are typically the most useful in hand constructed graphics as found in OpenScad.Hopefully this little piece of goodness will enable people to create very curvacious things in OpenScad. Extending the function to 3D can be easily done.UPDATE: Added a couple more pictures that show different ways of using the beast. Perhaps the coolest is using a Bezier curve to change color over the surface of the object.1) Create some appropriate control points 2) Choose a focal point 3) Call the BezQuadCurve() module 4) Rejoice!If you're actually going to use the BezQuadCurve module, then you'll want to comment out the part that prints the control points.The 'focalPoint' is the point from which all triangle fans will originate. You can choose this to be something appropriate for the kind of solid you're trying to create. The Bezier curve points themselves remain the same.You can use the 'PointAlongBez4' function to calculate any point along the bezier curve defined by your control points, and the 'u' factor (between 0 and 1).It's standard graphics stuff, but oh so useful.
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