Geometric recipes for constructing Bézier conics of given centre or focus

  • Authors:
  • J. Sánchez-Reyes

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mechanics, University of Castilla-La Mancha, ETS Ingenieros Industriales, Campus Universitario, 13071, Ciudad Real Spain

  • Venue:
  • Computer Aided Geometric Design
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Concentric and confocal conics relate by linear and perspective maps, respectively. Using this property, we carry over the well-known quadratic Bézier construction of a circular arc to arbitrary conic segments of given centre C or focus F. First, choose arbitrarily the Bézier endpoints and assign them unitary weights. Second, pick the inner Bézier point on a certain line passing through C or F. The distance from C or F to this inner point determines the inner weight.