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Started by czerny, June 24, 2014, 06:38:53 PM

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czerny

May be one of you native english speakers can help me?

I am searching two terms:

Say you have to draw interactively a bezier curve. And you draw some special symbols (say squares) for the four points (2 end points and 2 control points). How are these squares called? In german I would say 'Anfasser'.

Say you connect the first control point with the start point and the second control point with the endpoint by straight lines (may be xored). How are these lines called?

Thank you!

DMac

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Quote from: czerny on June 24, 2014, 06:38:53 PM
Say you have to draw interactively a bezier curve. And you draw some special symbols (say squares) for the four points (2 end points and 2 control points). How are these squares called? In german I would say 'Anfasser'.

They could be called Nodes.

Quote from: czerny on June 24, 2014, 06:38:53 PM
Say you connect the first control point with the start point and the second control point with the endpoint by straight lines (may be xored). How are these lines called?

Perhaps the attached picture helps.
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czerny

Thank you DMac for the first term!
The second term (for the line from p1 to p2 for example) has something to do with a rubber band. But I can not remember that right.

Sam Steele

This is a good site for translating computer-related words to other languages:
    http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx

Bitbeisser

Quote from: Sam Steele on June 26, 2014, 10:25:16 AM
This is a good site for translating computer-related words to other languages:
    http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx
I don't think that this site will help here in any way. Even when disregarding the fact that they only list UK English...  ;D

Ralf  ;)

jj2007

Quote from: Sam Steele on June 26, 2014, 10:25:16 AM
This is a good site for translating computer-related words to other languages:
    http://www.microsoft.com/Language/en-US/Default.aspx

That's indeed a very useful site, thank you, Sam!
And welcome to the Forum ;D