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svgLib: support approximating arcs to cubic bezier curves

See original GitHub issue

Follow up from @santhoshtr attempt here: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/pull/1136

Let’s continue the discussion here.

I found this piece of python code that @behdad wrote, an Arc class with an approximate_bezier metohd: https://github.com/behdad/gl-bezier/blob/master/behdad.py#L114

He said cairo has a similar but better implementation. Need to check that out

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rsheetercommented, Jan 17, 2019

Good news, people are very determined to ensure I do nothing but attend meetings so I guess I can dodge that bullet 😃

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behdadcommented, Jan 17, 2019

Oh very nice. I was reading Pomax but cairo-arc.c is even better.

I see you’re getting pulled into the curve math blackhole 😄. There’s a lot to read, and even more unwritten…

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