good point! I actually used this technique recently, to speed up a numerical optimization for laying out venn diagrams: http://www.benfrederickson.com/better-ve

good point! I actually used this technique recently, to speed up a numerical optimization for laying out venn diagrams: http://www.benfrederickson.com/better-venn-diagrams/ http://www.benfrederickson.com/better-venn-diagrams/ I didn't think of it when I was writing this post though =(