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From: sundar@ai.mit.edu (Sundar Narasimhan)
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Subject: Re: X-Y Plotter Output Optimization...
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Date: 30 Mar 91 17:56:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar29.201331.957@decuac.dec.com>, baker@wbc.enet.dec.com writes:
|> 	I'm looking for references on sequencing plotter commands
|> 	in such a way as to minimize the drawing time.  Clearly,
|> 	things like the number of pen up/down operations, and the
|> 	number of pen changes are going to have an impact on
|> 	performance.
|> 
|> 	Is there any literature on this subject ?
I'd like to suggest:

"Practical Use of Bucketing Techniques in Computational Geometry"
by Takao Asano et. al in the book "Computational Geometry" ed. by
G. Toussaint, published by North-Holland. 
(It has references to other work in this area).