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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: 3D Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.120610.22754@kth.se>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 12:06:10 GMT
- References: <830021@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <1992Dec14.055810.18557@hobbes.kzoo.edu> <1992Dec14.160846.6358@kth.se> <1992Dec14.215648.23018@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
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- In <1992Dec14.215648.23018@hobbes.kzoo.edu> k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
-
- >(Jon, are you sure Bresenham's got a patent? Two recent DDJs explained
- >and gave code for run-slice Bresenham, which seems better than
- >"standard" Bresenham in every respect, and which the Toolbox, therefore,
- >probably uses. No mention of patents.)
-
- I could have sworn the reason for Foley & van Dam to not use
- Bresenham's but another equivalent algorithm was that B was
- patented, but looking it up I could not find it. Oh, well.
-
- Or maybe F & vD & F & H got a patent on THEIR implementatino
- and want people to use it? :-)
-
- Anyway, I dislike patents on algorithms. Discussion offline,
- please.
-
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning
- "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".
- -- Larry Hardiman
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