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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: mac compatibles ?
Message-ID: <4694@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 11:54:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 11:54:23 1984
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> ...  Some of
> QuickDraw's basic algorithm's (i.e, the "region clipper") aren't even
> published.  

Some of them aren't even right.  I'm told (I haven't checked this out
personally) that you get very entertaining results if you try drawing
a very long, narrow ellipse.  If it's long and narrow enough, it breaks
up into disconnected line segments!  Somebody didn't test the extreme
cases very well.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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