How to create circle with Bézier curves?

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We have a start point (x, y) and a circle radius. There also exists an engine that can create a path from Bézier curve points.

How can I create a circle using Bézier curves?

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To people who are just looking for code:

https://jsfiddle.net/nooorz24/2u9forep/12/

var c = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");

function drawBezierOvalQuarter(centerX, centerY, sizeX, sizeY) {
    ctx.beginPath();
    ctx.moveTo(
        centerX - (sizeX),
        centerY - (0)
    );
    ctx.bezierCurveTo(
        centerX - (sizeX),
        centerY - (0.552 * sizeY),
        centerX - (0.552 * sizeX),
        centerY - (sizeY),
        centerX - (0),
        centerY - (sizeY)
    );
    ctx.stroke();
}

function drawBezierOval(centerX, centerY, sizeX, sizeY) {
    drawBezierOvalQuarter(centerX, centerY, -sizeX, sizeY);
    drawBezierOvalQuarter(centerX, centerY, sizeX, sizeY);
    drawBezierOvalQuarter(centerX, centerY, sizeX, -sizeY);
    drawBezierOvalQuarter(centerX, centerY, -sizeX, -sizeY);
}

function drawBezierCircle(centerX, centerY, size) {
    drawBezierOval(centerX, centerY, size, size)
}

drawBezierCircle(200, 200, 64)
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="400" height="400" style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.</canvas>

This allows to draw circle that is made out of 4 Bezier curves. Written in JS but can easily be translated to any other language

Note

Don't use Bezier curves if you need to draw a circle using SVG path unless required to do so. In path you can use Arc to create 2 half circles.

Circle drawing with SVG's arc path

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