This libary exists because PostGis (current version 12.0) does not support Bezier curves. However, keeping data in tables is still very useful. It's also sometimes necessary to have a human-readable format of Bezier curves. So instead of keeping the data in a binary format, the data is kept in string format and this libary provides a serializer / deserializer for it.
The string format for Bezier curves looks like this:
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BEZIERCURVE((0.0 1.0, 2.0 1.0), (2.0 1.0, 46.0 20.0, 0.0 0.0), (0.0 0.0, 40.0, 47.0, 50.0 30.0, 2.0 1.0))
The parser looks at the points and determines the type of point by its length:
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(x1 y1, x2 y2) -> Line from p1 to p2
(x1 y1, x2 y2, x3 y3) -> Quadratic bezier curve from p1 to p3 with control point p2
(x1 y1, x2 y2, x3 y3, x4 y4) -> Cubic bezier curve from p1 to p4 with control points p2 and p3
The reason for duplicating the point on each "item" / section is so that the BezierCurve can be constructed in parallel, if necessary.
Additional to serialization / deserialization, this library features tools to:
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License: MIT