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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Quickdraw ovals
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Date: 14 Dec 88 22:14:00 GMT
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In article <18307@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lippin@math.berkeley.edu writes:
>Recently parent@Apple.COM (Shean Parent) wrote:
>>The way that QuickDraw draws an oval is to strike an oval inside the
>>given rectangle then inset by the pen size and strike a second oval.
>>[.....]

>I can understand how one might mistake this for a correct algorithm at
>first, but I think that it's clear now that it isn't correct.  The
>ovals should be separated by the pen size, not just the bounding
>rectangles.
>
   Isn't that what Shean said?  Look at what he said and what you said...
 

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