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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1987
David A Clarke, Eastleigh, GB;
Robert W Farr, Eastleigh, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A curve generator for a display system with an arc generator has for generating an arc (10) of a circle (14) from data defining the locations of two end points P.sub.1 and P.sub.3 and an intermediate point P.sub.2 on the arc. The arc generator has an initializer (40) for calculating the angle subtended between a first vector (21), from a first of the end points, P.sub.1 to the intermediate point P.sub.2, and a second vector (32), from the second of the end points P.sub.3 to the intermediate point P.sub.2, and an arc plotter (44) for defining a succession of further vectors n1 from the first end point P.sub.1 and for calculating, for each further vector, its point of intersection P.sub.n with a counterpart vector 3n, from the second end point P.sub.3, with which it subtends the same angle, whereby a succession of further points P.sub.n are plotted on the circular arc.