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Article #1846Re: chaos game: Sierpinski Surprise
From: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:20
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:20
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In article <1992Aug20.124923.18308@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>
barry@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Barry G. Adams) writes:
>Here is an interesting postscript program which generates the
>Sierpinski gasket using the chaos game.
[lotsa code deleted]
When I try this on the IBM VM PostScript interpreter, I get:
%%[ Error: limitcheck; OffendingCommand: stroke ]%%
So I looked at how Don Lancaster drew a dot once, and changed:
>/plotpixel { moveto 0.2 0 rlineto stroke} def
To:
/plotpixel { moveto closepath stroke} def
And the problem vanished! But I have no idea why.
It's Fairly Mysterious. :-)
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