Points of Graphic Oval

[Bob Sneidar]

Both are part of the joke. I shouldn't explain it because that is like disecting a frog. The frog dies and nobody cares. :-)

But geometrically in any line there are an infinite number of points, because a point is an infinitely small coordinate. That's if by point you mean literally points in the geometrical sense. But if you mean how many pixels on a given display to create a visually smooth curve, well that is another matter. And if by points you meant anchors in a vector based drawing program, why typically 4 points, although 3 will do, I just don't know how perfect the circle can be and I thing an oval would require 4. 

See? The frog died and nobody cares! 

Bob S


> On Jul 31, 2017, at 08:34 , hh via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bob S. wrote:
>> By strict geometry, an infinite amount. Using Bezier, 4. :-)
> 
> Just because I am curious which part of your statement is the joke:
> 
> How do you define "strict geometry"?
> And what is an "infinite amount"?