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To distribute this evenly and quickly, you could use the Bresenham Algorithm. Unfortunately, I didn't see any Perl implementations on a quick scan of the results. I became aware of the Bresenham technique some 20 years ago when I saw how to draw a diagonal line with the right amount of dots without using any division. It was quite amazing.

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by hsmyers (Canon) on Sep 22, 2004 at 14:00 UTC
    While still not in Perl, the best work that I know of on implementing Bresenham's Algorithm is to be found in books by Michael Abrash. Two come to mind that belong on any programmers shelf; "Zen of Graphics Programming" Coriolis Group Books, ISBN 188357708X and "Zen of Code Optimization", Coriolis Group Books, ISBN 1883577039. Since Coriolis is sadly no longer among the living, you might try Powel's Technical in Portland.

    --hsm

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