Shape of a segment of a sector of an Ellipse2D



I would like to create a Shape that is the segment of an Arc, bounded by
concentric circles. I need to do this in order to paint just that area
of a circle instead of painting the pie slice. Picture of what I want
is here:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jmcgill/circlePaintProblem.png

I tried to fill in the sectors, procedurally using lines, but that's
ugly.

What I really want to do is, create an Arc, slice that Arc between
two Circles, and end up with a Shape that is only the result of the
intersection. If there's not a way to actually get a Shape like that,
maybe I can do it with Alpha so that only the piece I want gets drawn?


Thanks, I hope my explanation is clear.

James

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