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Re: mac compatibles ?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1984 16:54
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> ...  Some of
> QuickDraw's basic algorithm's (i.e, the "region clipper") aren't even
> published.  

Some of them aren't even right.  I'm told (I haven't checked this out
personally) that you get very entertaining results if you try drawing
a very long, narrow ellipse.  If it's long and narrow enough, it breaks
up into disconnected line segments!  Somebody didn't test the extreme
cases very well.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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Subject: Re: mac compatibles ?
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