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Ian Collier imc at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jun 9 11:56:29 CEST 2003


hgintis at attbi.com (Herbert Gintis) writes:
>         Different users want different things. TeX lacks graphics support. 
>When I wrote graphics routines for TeX, I had to import a floating point 
>package, and it worked, though it's incredibly clunky to use.
>         Try drawing curves, circles, etc. without floating point!

Circles are actually very easy (and faster) without floating point.  Look
up Bresenham's Algorithm on the web or in a graphics textbook.

Random curves may be trickier...
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