Slater, Mel2014-10-212014-10-2119881467-8659https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.1988.tb00633.xTraditional interactive drawing programs adopt a bottom-up approach, allowing the user to construct a picture by the use of discrete tools, for example, lines, circles, rectangles, and so on. This paper presents a different approach, which allows users to construct graphical objects by stretching and cutting existing objects. The representation is simply implemented, based on a ring of cubic Bezier curves, and use of the de Casteljau algorithm.10.1111/j.1467-8659.1988.tb00633.x323-329