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From: kjepo@prefix.liu.se (Kjell Post)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: thick lines, circles and ellipses
Message-ID: <700@prefix.liu.se>
Date: 19 Jan 88 14:37:15 GMT
References: <694@prefix.liu.se> <16183@watmath.waterloo.edu> <696@portofix.liu.se> <471@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
Lines: 18
Keywords: computer graphics, circles, ellipses, algorithms

In article <471@ecrcvax.UUCP> johng@ecrcvax.UUCP (John Gregor) writes:
>In article <696@portofix.liu.se> kjepo@portofix.liu.se (Kjell Post) writes:
>>Why not use a thicker pencil?
>Even though there is a fix for lines, this scheme is completely impractical
>for curves.  I recommend scan converting the polygon.
>
>				John Gregor
>                      johng%ecrcvax.UUCP@germany.CSNET

I wouldn't be too sure about that. Some of the modern graphic processors
can bitblt a pattern as fast as they set pixels.


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