o get down to the nuts and bolts of > bezier curves, take > a look at http://www-cgrl.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/bezier.html which > has a bunch of > rather dry, technical bezier articles. Ah, flashbacks to the graphics class I never did well in (could it be it was at 8am?). Despite all the math, here's one page that hopefully give some insight into how Bezier curves work, which could give you that little spark when working with Illustrator and such: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~arik/java/ex2/index.html --play with the applet =) sgd