[cairo] Adding support for quadratic beziers

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 04:23:51 +0530, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure the people here know that a quadratic represented by the
> points (s, c, e) is identical to the cubic represented by (s,
> (s+2c)/3, (e+2c)/3, e) -- so I was wondering why isn't it available in
> Cairo? At least at a user level even if not in the underlying data
> (because I realize many/most backends don't implement a separate
> quadTo)?

This is exactly why it was decided that Cairo did not need to handle
quadratic bezeirs; users could simply specify a quadratical bezier using
a cubic form. That said we have a number of other convenience functions,
and could have easily hid that we only use cubic beziers internally.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre