Re: Drawing ellipses with arbitrary orientation???

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From: Ken Lee
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <4lnh15$4mo@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>, lothi@uni-koblenz.de (Martin
Rothhaar) writes:
|> we are looking for a X-window routine (or any compatible graphics
|> function) to draw an ellipse with _arbitrary_ orientation.

Xlib does not have a primitive to do this, but you can do it with
a series of line segments or points.  Any computer graphics text
should have fast algorithms.

-- 
Ken Lee, X/Motif Consulting, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.html

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From: kenton@rahul.net (Ken Lee)
Subject: Re: Drawing ellipses with arbitrary orientation???
Date: 1996/04/25
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