5:25:13slyrusso beach what is the desired behavior of the "negative-areas" in the bezier stuff? should they draw background color or not draw at all?
5:30:38beachI think that is something I took from Metafont.
5:31:48beachIn Metafont, if you draw an area in one direction and then another area in the opposite direction that partially overlaps the first one, then the overlapping area is not going to be drawn.
5:32:37beachOne can make holes that way, which is often simpler than drawing only the area to be rendered.
5:33:15slyrusok, that's what i figured. the cheat is to draw the background color, which seems wrong.
5:33:40beachYes. You don't want to draw two areas like that separately.
5:34:18beachYou first turn them into pixels, or into a single area, say approximated by a polygon.
5:34:50beachThink of it a convenient way of defining a single area.