[net.graphics] Wanted: Cheap and easy way to create a dashed line

mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing) (06/10/85)

Perhaps someone out there could help out a novice.  I have written a front-end
to IDEAL which produces simple x-y plots.  (Other graphics languages can't be
used here for reasons which I don't want to go into).  Anyways, I'm interested
in drawing a dashed line which "looks good", i.e., the dashes are of equal
length, even if the line is not even close to straight.  This would be created
by IDEAL instructions which connect points with a straight line.
It seems like I would
have to calculate the length that I have moved along the curve in order to do
this.  Sounds like a pain.  IS there an easier way?  If so, what.  If not, is
there a cheap and dirty way of doing this? (It doesn't have to be all that
accurate).




						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

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