X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,10b7bb932d0a9609 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-08 02:28:01 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!howland.erols.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: New Version released - TONS of suggestions Message-ID: <3ad02b99.903475@news.ntlworld.com> References: <3AC99B70.E4C0C49C@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <9agj8a$bsd$1@news.inet.tele.dk> <3ACCCF07.F41D247C@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <986504967.2915@itz.pp.sci.fi> <3ACEF8CB.5F3DCBE5@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 45 Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 09:20:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.44.103 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 986721621 62.252.44.103 (Sun, 08 Apr 2001 10:20:21 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 10:20:21 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:5158 On Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:23:55 +0200, Markus Gebhard enlightened us with: > > Anyway I will try your suggestion for large ellipses - it could work > there but I am pretty sure it will not work with smaller ones. > > Anybody out there with other ideas or experiences about algorithms for > ellipses? None yet but: I know you said you didn't want to release the source code for Jave, but are you able to release the source code for just the circle drawing object(s), so people could try different algorithms for them but wouldn't affect the rest of the program? I'd be happy to have a go at finding a new circle algorithm (although I can't promise anything much) but it would take me a long time to write the rest of the interface to enable me to do it. Just a thought - I perfectly understand if you'd rather not. Going back to your elipse/lemon: ,---------. ,-' '-. / \ ( ) \ / '-. ,-' '---------' How do people think this should look? If we can't improve this much, odds are an algorithm wouldn't do much better. ,---"""---. ,-' '-. / \ : : \ / '-. ,-' '--.___.--' Minor improvement imho, but still far from perfect -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm