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Re: some 'puter/math help please
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Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:37:25 GMT
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David,
Check out Bresenham's Algorithm for line drawing:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham's_line_algorithm>
It's been around forever and does not require complex
math - which was not available on older computers anyways.
Sometimes the old guys knew how to do stuff right.
Ralph
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rafe Donahue wrote: <snip> (...) I guess this is where pythagoras will factor in--I want the number of points to be the same as the length of the initial line (from random (x,y) to (0,0))--if the line is 17 units long, (...) (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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