How it handles curves

[lingdong-]

How it handles curves

[LingDong-]

Hi there! Thanks for your interest in the project.

The amount of curves in Chinese characters really depends on the font. In Chinese fonts commonly printed and written today, most of the strokes are straight, while some of them are slightly curved. I think your first link pretty much includes all the curved ones. However by all means, one can also have a super straight font (like your second link) or a super curvy font (like your third link), as long as the readers can correctly identify the characters. Historically many different calligraphic styles that varies in curviness exist.

It's just like English fonts: in Helvetica or Times New Roman you get a lot of circles and curves, however in scifi/techno/LCD fonts you can also have just straight lines.

I'd say the font in your third link is very stylized. The only Chinese character that contains a full circle in most standardized font is "〇", (pronounced líng, meaning zero). The circles you see in that font are actually "口" (pronounced kǒu, meaning mouth), ususally rendered as a rectangle.

My system handles curves by either a) approximating them into straight lines, OR b) using a series of shorter line segments to give the illusion, depending on their length and curviness.

I hope my explanation is helpful!