On Mar 8, 12:29 pm, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

Looking at the API I think PathIterator's currentSegment() will just
get me the beginning, end and both control points. What I need is a
way to, for instance, find the length of or iterate over, pixel by
pixel, an arbitrary bezier curve. What I am actually doing is trying
to find the shortest path along a pair of bezier curves (think race
track) using a third bezier curve (think finding the apex). But how to
grade the quality of the current best path? Surely the simplest thing
to do would be to ask how long is the line? I was thinking if there
were a way to map the start, end, and both control points onto a
mathematical function, then I could just scale it appropriately and
iterate pixel by pixel, summing as I go, but I'm not sure if this can
be done.