Questions tagged [2d-graphics]
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Douglas-Peuker and equal distances
I have a polyline and I want to simplify it with Douglas-Peucker. It's an easy algorithm, but what if there are points with the same distance. What point should I select? Is there a reasonable solution?

rr84
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Line segments overlapping
I have implemented line segments intersetion test and at the very same test I want to include the fact that if two line segments overlap each other partially or fully , it will be flagged as no intersection.
Some hint to it would be great to have!

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How can I transform an ellipse into a circle?
I have an ellipse which has -45 degree axis.
How can I transform the ellipse into a circle? Can I use shear transformation along the x/y axis?

Ick-Sung Choi
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distribute the bounding area into grid space
I have a bounding area of a contour after the slicing operation. Now to generate the tool-path over the contour, I need to distribute the bounding area into grid space so that each each cell maintain a certain precomputed width.
I am doing the math…

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Newbie Issue with X11 Double buffering. Request help with code
I botched together the following code to do a simple rotating radar display.
How can I eliminate the flicker of the line being drawn and then drawn over? Can I use double buffering somehow?
How can I get mouse and keyboard inputs and process/parse…

John Telek
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Rigorous example of early graphics system
Here is a paragraph of Shreiner and Angel's Interactive Computer Graphics:
"Early graphics systems used general-purpose computers with the standard von
Neumann architecture. Such computers are characterized by a single processing unit
that processes…

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