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Bresenham's algorithm with Grey scale

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 23 , Issue 11 (November 1980) table of contents

Pages: 625 - 626

Year of Publication: 1980

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

M. L. V. Pitteway	Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, England
D. J. Watkinson	Brunel Univ., Uxbridge, England

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The control parameter in Bresenham's algorithm, when interpreted as a measure of distance from a straight line boundary, gives a weighted average of the intensities on each side of the line. This can be used to produce an aesthetically pleasing visual effect with modern display devices.

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	1	Bresenham, J.E. Algorithm for computer control of a digital plotter. IBM Syst. J. 4, 1 (1965), 25-30.
	2	Franklin C. Crow, The aliasing problem in computer-generated shaded images, Communications of the ACM, v.20 n.11, p.799-805, Nov. 1977 [doi>10.1145/359863.359869]
	3	Pitteway, M.L.V. Algorithm for drawing ellipses or hyperbolae with a digital plotter. The Comptr. J. 10, 3 (Nov. 1967), 282-289.

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	Satish Gupta , Robert F. Sproull, Filtering edges for gray-scale displays, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.15 n.3, p.1-5, August 1981
	Anthony C. Barkans, High speed high quality antialiased vector generation, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.24 n.4, p.319-326, Aug. 1990
	Avi C. Naiman, Jagged edges: when is filtering needed?, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.17 n.4, p.238-258, Oct. 1998
	Jules Bloomenthal, Edge Inference with Applications to Antialiasing, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.17 n.3, p.157-162, July 1983
	A. E. Fabris , A. R. Forrest, Antialiasing of curves by discrete pre-filtering, Proceedings of the 24th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, p.317-326, August 1997
	Xiaolin Wu, An efficient antialiasing technique, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, v.25 n.4, p.143-152, July 1991

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Keywords:
aliasing, computer graphics, grey scale

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