feat: bezier tracks

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# Brick Monorail
Parametric Lego-compatible monorail tracks, designed specifically for 3d printing.
Since the parts are made parametric, you can have any length or curve radius you want,
but these are the original tracks you can replicate
| Lego Name | Parameters |
| ----------------- | ------------------------ |
| Straight Long | `monorailStraight(l=32)` |
| Straight Short | `monorailStraight(l=8)` |
| Curve Long | `monorailCurve90(r=28)` |
| Curve Short Left | ❌ |
| Curve Short Right | ❌ |
| Ramp Upper Part | ❌ |
| Ramp Lower Part | ❌ |
| Monoswitch | ❌ |
| Point Right | ❌ |
| Point Left | ❌ |
## Design differences
Injection molding has vastly different requirements to 3d printing.
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Surfaces printed on supports just never look good.
Because of that, I decided to instead of having a support part on the bottom, I'd carve out space for
two stacked 1x2 plates, as well as a special two-high printable brick you can use for compatibility with the
old support mounts.
a 1x2 plate, which you can fit there for the same effect.
The monorail tracks are also solid now, which is not something you can do in injection molding but leaves
a really nice surface finish at the bottom of the rail for us.
_These are 3d printing optimized, compatible rails, not replicas. Replicas print horribly due to support._