Polygonal contours and the library clock #
The unnormalized polygonal contour agrees with the library's hat-function interpolation when time is multiplied by the number of contour steps.
The first contour value is zero.
The library contour is the same interpolation at duration times the unit parameter.
The polygonal contour, continued by zero, has speed at most one at nonnegative times.
The paper-clock contour evaluates the original polygonal contour at 2 * size * s.