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From: kjepo@portofix.liu.se (Kjell Post)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: thick lines, circles and ellipses
Keywords: computer graphics, circles, ellipses, algorithms
Message-ID: <696@portofix.liu.se>
Date: 12 Jan 88 07:22:39 GMT
References: <694@prefix.liu.se> <16183@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <16183@watmath.waterloo.edu>, kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) writes:
> In article <694@prefix.liu.se> ingwa@prefix.liu.se (Inge Wallin) writes:
> >in the same genre. How do you, efficiently, draw lines, arcs, circles
> >and so on with a line width bigger than 1?

Why not use a thicker pencil?

What I'm saying is that you can print a larger dot instead of just a pixel.
This is the method used by ditroff where they draw lines, arcs and b-splines
with the '.' character. By altering the fontsize you get different line widths.



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