| Re: Circle drawing request. [message #7985 is a reply to message #7981] |
Tue, 28 January 1997 00:00  |
Wayne Landsman
Messages: 117
Registered: January 1997
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David Kennedy wrote:
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> This must be a FAQ - anyone got a good circle drawing sub-routine?
> Input - x, y, radius
> Output - [x,y] vectors for POLYFILL etc.
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> I have been using one (shown below) but I find it produces fine lines
> shooting off to small y values from the left and right edges of each
> circle. And my fiddling with it has made it worse I'm afraid.
>
David,
You might want to look at the procedure TVCIRCLE available from
http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/tv/tvcircle.pro, which includes a
/FILL option for using POLYFILL. It uses a more sophisticated circle
drawing algorithm that was shown to me a few years back by Allyn Saroyn.
A possible problem with the simple-minded algorithm where the X,Y
coordinates of the circle are calculated at a preset number of values
(25*4 = 100 for David Fanning's sample code) is that the circle might
sometimes be smooth, and sometimes spiky, depending on the circle size
and the graphics device. TVCIRCLE gets around this problem by always
calculating the positions internally in device coordinates, and
calculating all positions where the X,Y device coordinates differ by an
integral amount. Thus, the circle is guarenteed (in principle) to come
out smooth on all graphics devices.
--Wayne Landsman landsman@mpb.gsfc.nasa.gov
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