•Re: Seek one liner for distributing an integer


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•Re: Seek one liner for distributing an integer

by merlyn (Sage)

on Sep 22, 2004 at 10:24 UTC ( [id://392887]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Seek one liner for distributing an integer

To distribute this evenly and quickly, you could use the Bresenham Algorithm. Unfortunately, I didn't see any Perl implementations on a quick scan of the results. I became aware of the Bresenham technique some 20 years ago when I saw how to draw a diagonal line with the right amount of dots without using any division. It was quite amazing.

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