Dear all,

I am not aware that curve morphing is available in Inkscape. If so please ignore this email.

For my own biology research purposes I've implemented the curve morphing algorithm by weighted means of strings, which can morph any pair of Bézier curves (or any other set of points that define a curve) with as many weighted averages as the user desires.

The primary use is for reconstructing volumes for 3D modelling purposes, but I believe the ability to create average curves (both open and closed curves work), particularly regarding animated SVG, would be a nice feature to have in Inkscape.

I lack the knowledge of the Inkscape code base to plug this in myself. If anyone is interested, I can help and learn about Inkscape in the process. The algorithm consists of an ANSI C python module, with the core functionality separated in a pure C file.

The page: http://www.pensament.net/java/CurveMorphing.html

Albert

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