[metapost] turningnumber revisited

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Jun 28 08:51:06 CEST 2011


Hi Laurent,

On 06/28/2011 08:40 AM, laurent at math.toronto.edu wrote:
>
> Since there is agreement concerning the mathematical
> concept "winding number" and the performance of its
> Metapost (or PostScript) implementation
> "windingnumber", I propose today to exploit "winding
> number" to specify "turning number" and propose
> potential Metafont implementations of the primitive
> "turningnumber".

Unless you plan to also write the actual implementation
of such a new implementation (be it for metapost or metafont)
I fear this discussion will remain strictly theoretical.

Best wishes,
Taco


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