You are welcome. No, I was still learning about computers at the time that article came out in the Linux Journal. I can take credit however, for stealing adding that code to Sphere. Too bad a new build never came out (due to the fact we never got it stable enough with the new MSVC... maybe I can retry that, there is a new spidermonkey, and a new MSVC).

Sphere is a game engine build in C with Javascript bindings. Use cases were testing javascript code, running javascript applications (and thanks to the bindings, you could read/write files, do some network connections, do things imagemagick can, play mod's and create ogg's, generate sounds. Similar to what node.js is now, but with a much more stronger focus on graphics... and games, of course).

As for the ellipsis to poly... remember that a quarter of an ellipse is the same to the rest, so you would need to calculate some points (expensive calculation) on that quarter segment, and then mirror in x-axis and/or y-axis (just changing the sign + to -, and then sum, not expensive) to get the other points.

In reply to Re^2: pixel in ellipsis: by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread Graphics math. by BrowserUk

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