Add derivative and curvature to PathSeg
#197
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This is meant to start thinking, rather than as a finished PR.
The goal is to allow
PathSeg
s to be differentiated, as it can be useful in some cases to treat all kinds of paths uniformly.This PR implements two possible solutions, but there are more I can think of:
Derivative of a line is a degenerate line (in this PR)
Pros:
Cons:
Add
ConstantPoint
toPathSeg
Pros:
PathSeg
will be closed regarding to differentiationCons:
ConstantPoint
doesn't really make sense inPathSeg
Add a
deriv_at
method (better name welcome) toPathSeg
(in this PR)Pros:
Cons:
PathSeg
Add a new trait that allows evaluating the first (second?, third?) derivative
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Cons:
Any thoughts, more ideas? Is something like this even welcome? :)