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From: turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Drawing Thick Lines
Message-ID: <13781@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 09:01:20 GMT
References: <1991May29.115821.28308@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: Advanced Technology Graphics, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, USA
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ran@doc.ic.ac.uk (Robert A Nicholls) writes:

>    What is the best (fastest) way of drawing a thick line between two points.
>The thick line should be drawn so that given a sequence of points to draw
>through, the joins between the line segments should not be too jagged.

Have a polyline as the interface,
and convert the whole thing into a concave polygon.
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