Unfortunately, while the code is mine to reuse, it is not mine to distribute, and I can not post it in toto. But you probably wouldn't want that ;) It's four programs, each about a thousand lines, and the math (actually, geometry) behind the path generation is hard to follow (involving three cartesian systems and two polar systems, and multiple translations between them.)

Sorry, don't mean to suggest it's not of interest or too hard to understand, 'cause neither are probably true, but I still couldn't post it all...and being a huge open source bigot myself, it's not easy for me to say that.

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