Welcome to sympathor’s documentation!

sympathor has compassion with those trying to obtain a symbolic description of paths described by the SVG 2 specification. It enables you to extract a fully symbolic description of paths from MIME types text/plain or image/svg+xml.

sympathor enables you to …

• obtain a sampled path, e.g. for further (numerical) processing

• transform the path, e.g. translate, rotate or scale

• derive properties and quantities of differential geometry, e.g. its natural parametrization, its Frenet frame or its curvature

• retrieve all symbolic expressions as CasADi objects, e.g. for use in subsequent software

Looking for an easy way to get started? Check out the quick start guide.

Compatibility

sympathor is written for Python 3 - we suggest you use Python 3.5 or newer.

License

sympathor is a free and open-source package, licensed under the permissive MIT license.