It started as a small explanation on the basics of Bezier curves in 2011 and then kept growing until it's basically a full book now, hitting hacker news every year/half year, and getting lots of thanks for having made it by a very diverse crowd - from kids doing homework to engineers at software companies who have a question not covered by the material (yet).
It's been a mostly low effort investment and I could have just as easily not bothered, but just adding small bits at a slow pace parts of on the internet: five years of improvement would not have happened if I'd simply not bothered, and now there is an amazingly popular free resource for this material easily findable online.
It started as a small explanation on the basics of Bezier curves in 2011 and then kept growing until it's basically a full book now, hitting hacker news every year/half year, and getting lots of thanks for having made it by a very diverse crowd - from kids doing homework to engineers at software companies who have a question not covered by the material (yet).
It's been a mostly low effort investment and I could have just as easily not bothered, but just adding small bits at a slow pace parts of on the internet: five years of improvement would not have happened if I'd simply not bothered, and now there is an amazingly popular free resource for this material easily findable online.