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From: gleicher@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Gleicher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Right way to draw simple things
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Date: 13 Nov 90 18:04:14 GMT
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I'd like to know what the correct (and fastest) ways to draw some simple
things are. I've been told to avoid relative drawing, rectf, ... So what
SHOULD I do to do the following (2d) things FAST.

1) draw a line segment   (instead of move2/draw2)
	eg: line(float,float,float,float)

2) draw a small dot, (say 3x3 pixels - but the exact size isn't important - it
	just needs to be small, yet big enough to be seen) - for now I use
	rectf with a small size

Thanks,

	Mike