Re: Shouldn't Cairo use/offer degrees rather than radians?
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.cairo |
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| Organization | Geek Central |
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:08:04 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes: > >> You realize that, by introducing this distortion, you are reducing >> the accuracy of the computation? > > It replaces a sin(x)/cos(x) pair by a sin(x)/sin(pi/2-x) pair. The > largest cumulative effect is at pi/4. So you introduce a kink at π/4. How is this any better, again? >> I wonder what the term is, for deliberately producing inaccurate >> answers just to look good... > > A very well-considered tradeoff and solid engineering? “Engineering” is not the term that comes to mind. Try “marketing” or “management”. You do realize that your claim about Cairo’s “inability to reliably draw a half circle that seamlessly connects with another half circle under any rasterization” is complete nonsense, right? -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo