10-13-2019, 09:18 AM
"Converge" is not really the word... It just that instead of having as single point you have several consecutive identical points. In the path editor, when you drag an anchor at a corner, you see another anchor remaining at the same spot, and if you drag it, there will also be another anchor remaining...
So you can fix this by walking the path, and removing all triplets where the anchor is at the same coordinates as the previous one.
Once this is done you can further simplify the path because because there are anchors that serve no purpose in the middle of straight lines. To clean them, consider 3 consecutive anchors, a,b,c. If (xc-xa)/(yc-ya)==(xb-xa)/(yb-ya) then b can be dropped (IRL you have of course to consider the case where yc==ya or yb==ya to avoid division by zero, but if yc==yb==ya then they are aligned).
Last, the last anchors of your strokes have the same coordinates as the first. This is not necessary since the stroke is "closed".
So you can fix this by walking the path, and removing all triplets where the anchor is at the same coordinates as the previous one.
Once this is done you can further simplify the path because because there are anchors that serve no purpose in the middle of straight lines. To clean them, consider 3 consecutive anchors, a,b,c. If (xc-xa)/(yc-ya)==(xb-xa)/(yb-ya) then b can be dropped (IRL you have of course to consider the case where yc==ya or yb==ya to avoid division by zero, but if yc==yb==ya then they are aligned).
Last, the last anchors of your strokes have the same coordinates as the first. This is not necessary since the stroke is "closed".