<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>If y'all are interested in leveraging the prior work in the CAD/CAM and CAGD </DIV>
<DIV>fields, good places to start would be:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="ftp://ftp.cs.technion.ac.il/pub/misc/gershon/papers/ff_minkowski_sum.pdf.gz">ftp://ftp.cs.technion.ac.il/pub/misc/gershon/papers/ff_minkowski_sum.pdf.gz</A></DIV>
<DIV><A href="ftp://ftp.cs.technion.ac.il/pub/misc/gershon/papers/offset-compare.pdf.gz">ftp://ftp.cs.technion.ac.il/pub/misc/gershon/papers/offset-compare.pdf.gz</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I know that font design has some special requirements. I guess you</DIV>
<DIV>need to try hard to minimize the number of cubic segments, and you need</DIV>
<DIV>the junctions to be at specific places (places with horizontal or vertical tangents).</DIV>
<DIV>But, still, I think the prior work has some relevance.</DIV>
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<DIV>bubba</DIV></td></tr></table>