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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1994
Duaine W Pryor, Jr, Berkeley, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method enables the prediction of the number of subdivisions of a curve that will be required by control polygons to assure that a resulting straight line representation of the curve will not exceed a preset error threshold. The method is applicable to cubics and parametric quadratics including parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas. In each case, the prediction of the number of subdivisions eliminates the need for a detailed error calculation at each subdivision step, thereby enabling an error calculation to be carried out only once in the process.
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