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  • James: ‘His rational, “Only the Divine is perfect”

    And still, ‘perfect’ is a relative conception IMHO. As Edmund Burke wrote: ‘For it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness to any uses.

    * Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London, 1770) p.226


  • One last note about the percentages: For cubic Bézier curves, the question is what the best approximation is. One I have encountered in the literature is the one where the curve touches the circle/ellipse from outside every 45 degrees, eight times in total. For that, the percentage would be 55.22847493. Higher percentages would not touch the perfect circle between the extremum points. An area approximation would require a slightly smaller percentage.

    Src: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/ellipse4.pdf (and many others, actually)
  • I have no idea whether there is anyone interested in it, but some of my old stuff I showed to Adrian Frutiger can be found here: http://www.lettermodel.org/wordpress/?page_id=1751
  • attarattar Posts: 209
    edited February 2015
    The gravestone you engraved is very nice. Having a fleuron on one's gravestone is quite cool. — I guess engraving on marble doesn't leave much room for trial and error, so it mustn't be an easy practise.
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