Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!amdahl!drivax!holloway
From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: thick lines, circles and ellipses
Keywords: computer graphics, circles, ellipses, algorithms
Message-ID: <2912@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 17:36:03 GMT
References: <694@prefix.liu.se>
Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc.
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In article <694@prefix.liu.se> ingwa@prefix.liu.se (Inge Wallin) writes:
>The current disussion about circles made me think about something else
>in the same genre. How do you, efficiently, draw lines, arcs, circles
>and so on with a line width bigger than 1?

We do it by drawing a rectangle with the desired width, the same direction
as the line. This makes patterned lines (-.-.-., etc.) difficult, so we
don't do 'em.

- Bruce
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