“Bézier curves are named after their inventor, Dr. Pierre Bézier. Bézier was an engineer with the Renault car company and set out in the early 1960’s to develop a curve formulation which would lend itself to shape design. Engineers may find it most understandable to think of Bézier curves in terms of the center of mass of a set of point masses. For example, consider the …”
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