BezierDraw 1.1.4

An application designed to help you produce geometrical designs for Christmas cards or other stuff. BezierDraw is an easy-to-use, simple yet pretty complex application that was designed to help you produce geometrical designs for Christmas cards or other stuff.
The emphasis of the BezierDraw project was on being able to manipulate the objects with a mouse, clone the objects easily, and produce radial symmetry about a centre point.
The original intent was to produce a monochrome wireframe display which could be printed at high resolution, and perhaps colored by hand after printing.
The word Bezier is used in the program title because almost all the drawing is done using Bezier curves, the only exception being the occasional ellipse. The Bezier curves are spliced together in various ways to produce the desired object.
These curves were chosen for two reasons: firstly, they are rendered extremely rapidly by the graphics engine, so it is possible to do live manipulation with a mouse; secondly, the standard vector graphics file formats such as SVG have full support for them.
Since Bezier curves were used, the resulting shapes are not absolutely true hyperbolas or trochoids; however, in most cases you would be hard-pressed to tell the difference.
The program is written in Visual Basic 6, and has no special installation procedures.
Main features:
- Library of objects expanded to include some of the more complex closed-form shapes like cardioids and trochoids.
- Support for a coloring operation which operates like a floodfill in a bitmap, with a color-picker.
- Support for a zoom feature, for more precise positioning of objects.
- Support for SVG output, to make it more web-compatible.
- The corollary to SVG output is that color-filling can be done using other programs, such as Inkscape, which use a completely different set of rules for filling objects: totally vector-based, not bitmap-based.
System requirements:
- You must set the color depth of your monitor to be 24-bit or higher, sometimes called True Color