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On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:25, Doug Eleveld wrote:
> Yes, the current line clipping approach is faster,
> especially for line (-100000000, ....). I can
> certainly see the attraction to use such a method.
> But it is not pixel correct.
>
> It might be 'easy' to get the expected behavior using
> do_line, but it is even easier to get unexpected
> behavior. Personally I think it should be 'easiest'
> to get pixel correct behavior and a little harder to
> get 'fastest but inaccurate' behavior. Usually
> referred to as the priniciple of the least suprise I
> believe.
>
Yeah. As I said - ideally someone would add code to the clipping to also
clip the Bresenham line drawer state. So we would always have fast and
correct code :)
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>