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From: kr705@gre.ac.uk (Rad)
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Subject: Re: Making a race track
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:35:00 GMT
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Hi Jon,

Thanks for the idea.
Fortunatly I've kind of worked out how to do it using bezier splines,
or at least I think ;¬)

Rad.
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:37:24 -0000, "Jon Prestidge (Moose)"
<jon@surfed.to> wrote:

>I can't help with the maths but until you find out how to do these 'bezier
>curve' doobries how about just sketching some appealing looking curves in a
>CAD package or on graph paper and just reading off some co-ordinates from
>the out line...and hard code 'em into a little array, then multiply or
>divide the co-ords in x and y at run-time to make them fit to the straights.
>A bit naff what with hard-coded arrays and what-not, but perhaps good enough
>for an interim solution.
>
>Jon
>
>