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[billy <>]

I'm using the 2D Arrangements package, and I want to construct the boundary
of a "hippodrome" around a line segment. Here's what it looks like around a
line segment 'e' https://imgur.com/UYNte2Q
To do this I'm trying to construct the two parallel line segments, and then
the two semicircles. The trouble is actually constructing those 4 points
where the parallel segments meet the semicircles.
If I could construct a vector perpendicular to the line segment with
magnitude r, I could construct a Transform from this vector and apply that
to the line segment and I'd be done. The Vector_2 class does support
constructing perpendicular vectors, but there seems to be no clear way to
make this vector have a chosen magnitude. The Direction_2 class says it
doesn't do normalisation, so it doesn't seem clear at all how to construct a
unit vector perpendicular to the line segment.



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