how to draw smooth curve through N points using javascript HTML5 canvas?

Question

For a drawing application, I\'m saving the mouse movement coordinates to an array then drawing them with lineTo. The resulting line is not smooth. How can I produce a sing

Answer 1

Incredibly late but inspired by Homan's brilliantly simple answer, allow me to post a more general solution (general in the sense that Homan's solution crashes on arrays of points with less than 3 vertices):

function smooth(ctx, points)
{
    if(points == undefined || points.length == 0)
    {
        return true;
    }
    if(points.length == 1)
    {
        ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
        ctx.lineTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
        return true;
    }
    if(points.length == 2)
    {
        ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
        ctx.lineTo(points[1].x, points[1].y);
        return true;
    }
    ctx.moveTo(points[0].x, points[0].y);
    for (var i = 1; i < points.length - 2; i ++)
    {
        var xc = (points[i].x + points[i + 1].x) / 2;
        var yc = (points[i].y + points[i + 1].y) / 2;
        ctx.quadraticCurveTo(points[i].x, points[i].y, xc, yc);
    }
    ctx.quadraticCurveTo(points[i].x, points[i].y, points[i+1].x, points[i+1].y);
}