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Drawing Dashed Lines and Curves

See Jens Gravesen: “Adaptive subdivision and the length of Bezier curves” mat-report no. 1992-10, Mathematical Institute, The Technical University of Denmark, or in “Graphics Gems V” (Editor Alan Paeth). Sample Code Download demo project – 34 KB Download Source code – 6 KB The demo project shows a rotating gradient filled ellipse with a dotted […]

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See Jens Gravesen: “Adaptive subdivision and the length of Bezier curves”
mat-report no. 1992-10, Mathematical Institute, The Technical
University of Denmark, or in “Graphics Gems V” (Editor Alan Paeth).

Sample Code

Download demo project – 34 KB

Download Source code – 6 KB

The demo project shows a rotating gradient filled ellipse with a dotted outline.
For clarity and so that you might see how fast or slow typically complex operations can be,
the drawing code has not been carefully optimized.

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