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dotCooCoo 9a4e3e6202 Smooth tool: the drag shows the band the tool smooths
While the Smooth tool drags with a path selected that it can smooth, a
dashed outline shows the band its release smooths: every point within
the tool's radius (12 screen pixels) of the drag, round at both ends.
Alt smoothing with the Pencil, Paintbrush and Blob Brush shows the same
band. A selection with no path the tool can change shows none.

- The band is kept in squares eight radii wide, and each step of the
  drag adds its area only to the squares it reaches. A piece of a
  square's outline along a side is left out only where the square
  across holds band area.
- A drag segment too long for the squares (a jump drawn zoomed out and
  viewed zoomed in) keeps its band near each end in the squares and
  shows the rest as the two sides of its band. A step that cannot be
  added whole is added one segment at a time.
- A coarser grid of cells lists the squares and long segments, so a new
  one is checked only against those near it, and an outline is made
  again only where the band near it changed.
- After a zoom change mid-drag the band is outlined again a few hundred
  points per frame, and the work on long segments stops for the frame
  after a fixed budget. Tools report unfinished overlays with
  Tool::overlays_pending, and the canvas then draws again on the next
  frame, so the band covers the whole drag even while the pointer holds
  still.
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