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<p>—Pomax (or in the tweetworld, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRealPomax">@TheRealPomax</a>)</p>
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<h2>Note: virtually all Bézier graphics are interactive.</h2>
<p>This page uses interactive examples, relying heavily on <a href="http://pomax.github.io/bezierjs/">Bezier.js</a>,
as well as "real" maths (in LaTeX form) which is typeset using the most excellent <a href="http://MathJax.org">MathJax</a> library.
The page is generated offline as a React application, using Webpack, which has made adding
"view source" options considerably more challenging. I'm still trying to figure out how to
add them back in, but it didn't feel like it should hold up deploying this update compared
to the previous years' version.</p>
<h2>This book is open source.</h2>
<p>This book is an open source software project, and lives on two github repositorites. The
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of these, and pretty much do with them as you please, except for passing it off as your
own work wholesale, of course =)</p>
<h2>How complicated is the maths going to be?</h2>
<p>Most of the mathematics in this Primer are early high school maths. If you understand basic
arithmetic, and you know how to read English, you should be able to get by just fine. There
will at times be <em>far</em> more complicated maths, but if you don't feel like digesting
them, you can safely skip over them by either skipping over the "detail boxes" in section
or by just jumping to the end of a section with maths that looks too involving. The end of
sections typically simply list the conclusions so you can just work with those values directly.</p>
<h2>Questions, comments:</h2>
<p>If you have suggestions for new sections, hit up the <a href="https://github.com/pomax/BezierInfo-2/issues">github
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but you can use the issue tracker for that as well. Once the rewrite is done, I'll add a general
comment section back in, and maybe a more topical "select this section of text and hit the
'question' button to ask a question about it" system. We'll see.</p>
<h2>Buy me a coffee?</h2>
<p>If you enjoyed this book, or you simply found it useful for something you were trying to
get done, and you were wondering how to let me know you appreciated this book, you can
always <a class="link" href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QPRDLNGDANJSW"
>buy me a coffee</a>, however much a coffee is where you live. This work has grown over the
years, from a small primer to a 70ish print-page-equivalent reader on the subject of Bézier
curves, and a lot of coffee went into the making of it. I don't regret a minute I spent
on writing it, but I can always do with some more coffee to keep on writing!</p>
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