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Curved VMobject Create Animation Stroke
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Description
## Description of bug / unexpected behavior
When you Create a VMobject with a thick stroke, the path cuts off weirdly (look in bottom left corner of image)
## Expected behavior
It should be smooth!
## How to reproduce the issue
I created the VMobject using set_points_smoothly.

Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with a curved VMobject created using set_points_smoothly and a thick stroke, focusing on the Create animation and the bottom-left cutoff shown in the attached image. Trace the VMobject stroke rendering and animation path; done means the curved stroke renders smoothly without the visible cutoff.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100