[cairo] Strange behaviour on arc drawing with big line width

[Bryce Harrington]

Chris posted a patch to the bug tracker for this issue:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84115

Bryce

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 01:34:23PM +0200, Tobias Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried a few things, and expected the correct result to be this:
>         cr.arc(200, 200, 200, 0*(math.pi/180), -60*(math.pi/180))
>         cr.line_to(200,200)
>         cr.close_path()
>         cr.fill()
> 
> but actually PostScript (ghostscript's interpretation of it) will
> not draw a horizontal line at the beginning, either:
>  $ gs
>  GS> 200 setlinewidth
>  GS> 200 500 100 0 60 arcn stroke
> 
> (Note: I've used arcn instead of arc and 60 instead of -60 because
> the postscript coordinate system has its Y-axis going upwards,
> unlike pygtk.)
> 
> Also, when using LINE_CAP_SQUARE (and a smaller line-width), I can
> see that cairo and ghostscript disagrees on the tangent-direction at
> the endpoints of the arc...
> 
> What cairo seems to do, is use different tangent directions for the
> inner and the outer part of the stroked arc, but (AFAICS) *only at
> the beginning* of the arc -- the end of it is always unaffected!
> That seems strange to me.
> But I'm not sure, which tangent is actually the 'correct' one.
> 
> If you want a perfect horizontal line, you should not stroke the
> arc, but fill it (see my first code snippet).
> 
> Maybe someone with better knowledge of how cairo actually draws
> (tesselates?) these arcs wants to explain the current behavior?
> 
>   Tobias
> 
> 
> 
> On 20/09/14 02:04, Maurizio Berti wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I'm writing a cairo python script, which loads graphics and
> >animations from a custom file to create "fancy" (and unuseful)
> >graphics like those seen in videogames and scifi movies.
> >I have a problem with arcs, though: I need to be able to draw them
> >interactively, with user given coords, start/end and line width.
> >When I try to draw arcs with a certain line width I have a strange
> >behaviour: the beginning of the line is not straight as it should
> >be, you can see an example of it here:
> >http://jidesk.net/sypy/strangearc2.jpg
> >
> >Here is the code I used for this test:
> >https://bpaste.net/show/e1f3b8d1f842
> >
> >I'm using cairo 1.12.16 from the official Gentoo portage (the
> >problem still remains with the latest -r3 version in the portage),
> >with pycairo 1.10.0-r4, also latest stable from the portage.
> >
> >CC'ing to bryce at osg.samsung.com <mailto:bryce at osg.samsung.com> who
> >confirmed the issue on #cairo using cairo
> >1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1, but was not present using cairo
> >1.12.16-0ubuntu1.1~bryce~precise6, with little different results:
> >http://jidesk.net/sypy/strangearc-bryce.png
> >
> >To draw single and simple "filled" arcs I could use lines and
> >curves, but that would affect the performances of my script (and
> >would require a lot of complex calculations), so I'm here to ask
> >if someone can confirm that this is a bug indeed.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Maurizio
> >
> >-- 
> >È difficile avere una convinzione precisa quando si parla delle
> >ragioni del cuore. - "Sostiene Pereira", Antonio Tabucchi
> >http://www.jidesk.net
> >
> >
>