No, those are straight lines.
@th (fwiw it is a super far right town)
@hypha @th no, that town is obviously on the left side of the image, not the right.
@th Sadly I have the same intrusive thoughts each time I visit or pass that town... %-P
@th so it can't be bézier curves unless they are made in Bézier? (That could be the reason the strait lines surrounding the area?)
@boab @th Right, if they're not from the Bézier region of France they're just sparkling curved lines.
@boab @th EU regulations. Curves made elsewhere should be named piecewise polynomial curves. Which begs the question why they would use straight lines in their own area. They probably went for the cheapest supplier in a European tender.
@th as someone who once built a graph in an app on limited data using bezier curves - I love this!
@th but look at the landscape!
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@th a straight line is just a bezier curve where all control points are on the same line.
@th and you think they are?
@th
No, these are segmented
@th lines are Bézier curves as well tho ;)

@th straight lines are curves too, with the right parameters.

also, will forever stan de Casteljau

@th having been there¹ I can confirm that those segments are an approximation of what in real life *are* curves (and they aren't flat in the z direction either!).

¹ we needed a place to stop for a night more or less in that area. it was chosen for very reasoned reason such as the name

@th also, if you need to become a bit more curvy I can strongly recommend the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9s… pastry from the bakery we stopped at for breakfast (together by a freshly baked, still warm, baguette shared by a car-load of people, and another baguette or two for the trip)
Jésuite - Wikipedia

@th Kind of unfortunate that they didn't use gay lines there, true.

@th

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