Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I can still remember everybody laughing when he said that our assignment 
> was to write a program to draw a straight line. But *you* try doing that 
> with only integer arithmetic. It's surprisingly nontrivial.

  Drawing a line with integer arithmetic is quite easy. Drawing it
accurately is slightly more involved. Drawing it *fast* is non-trivial.

  And that's assuming the line has a width of 1 pixel and the drawing is
done without antialiasing.

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                                                          - Warp

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