Align objects to curve with canvas

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Published on 2010-05-03T23:33:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 23:38 UTC
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Is it possible? I'm learning canvas at the moment, and while it's fun to position objects programmatically, it would be most interesting to come up with a way to align them to a curve.

E.g. align a series of squares back to back along a wavy line or a circle.

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