“An improvement on line scan-conversion” by Chen

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    Big Data and Technical

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    An improvement on line scan-conversion

Session/Category Title:   Papers, Lines, and Letters


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    A scan-converted straight line may contain many pixel segments of identical shapes. Therefore, instead of scan-converting the whole line step by step, multiple segments of a line can be scan-converted through copying and replicating.

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