[cairo] Questions and optimizations in cairo-arc

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at cs.toronto.edu
Tue Jul 26 14:36:58 PDT 2005


On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Jason Dorje Short wrote:

> Bill Spitzak wrote:
> > Actually there are *four* possible arcs, the center can be in two
> > positions on either side of the line connecting the points.
>
> Since we're talking about circles not ovals, I believe you are wrong:
> two points define only two possible circles.

Yes, but each circle has the little (eg. clockwise) and big
(eg. counterclockwise) arcs :)

> -jason

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