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Arcs and circles from curveto

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From: Matt Brandt
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:42
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I've been able to come up with a pretty good approximation of a circle
using curveto that works like this:

	x y rad 0 180 arc

is approximately equivalent to:

	x-rad y x-rad y+2*rad/3 x+rad y+2*rad/3 x+rad y curveto

of course, you can repeat for the bottom of the circle. Like I said though,
this is only an approximation. Does anybody out there have a better  
approximation of circle drawing using curveto? I need to do it this way for  
bizarre reasons and I would like to improve the accuracy a little bit.

matt
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