9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
10:35 p.m.
In article <Pine.NEB.4.63.0710091905000.24939 at stench.no.domain>,
Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net> writes:
Can't speak about the Grinnel, but in the early
'80s I was involved with
a site that had some nice Megatek (IIRC) stroke graphics engines that include
a conic section generator so it could do curves and circles and stuff.
Was this a storage tube, calligraphic tube or raster tube?
'Course, for all I know that was standard
equipment for stroke graphics
hardware...
It depends on what you mean by stroke graphics hardware; the Tektronix
401x series is a storage tube device that is "painted" by strokes, but
it doesn't have anything more than point, line and character output.
You have to build smooth curves out of line approximations.
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