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> This is something that Adobe Illustrator could do 20 years ago ... and Metafont could do over 40 years ago. Part of the problem might be that finding a good
by mananaysiempre 2y ago
> This is something that Adobe Illustrator could do 20 years ago
... and Metafont could do over 40 years ago. Part of the problem might be that finding a good class of curves closed under convolution (that’s the general term for this kind of thing) remains a research problem, thus not really something you see in open formats (including e.g. PostScript—part of why converting Metafont to more conventional vector formats is difficult). But it’s the first time I (an amateur) am seeing Levien’s thesis mentioned in this context, so I’ll have to check that out.