Quote - So I'm kind of stuck, right now, with the curve-posing concept.  I'll see if more Googling can help somehow.

Like I said before, I'll see if that paper will improve what can be used for the initial guess, if it does so much the better, but either way I'll look into tidying up the code I already have (the solver bit is only about 60 lines but it's mixed in with drawing and window init code for P8)