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Article #74Re: mac compatibles ?
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1984 16:54
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
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