Re: [Devel] Problems with bbox code and cubic bezier curves

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Right  -- there may be multiple divisions by 2 when subdividing a curve.  Ugh...
Hadn't stopped to think about that one!

Tom

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Toby J Sargeant wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:33:16AM -0400, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> > I thought the point was to avoid square roots, because this introduces
> > 16.16 fixed numbers.  Do we round, truncate, floor, or ceil such beasties?
> > Etc, etc...
>
> Apart from anything else, aren't you already accepting (cumulative) rounding
> errors when you subdivide curves?
>
> Toby.
>