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From: mperdue@iquest.net (Mario Perdue)
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Subject: Re: Circle?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 02:03:41 GMT
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Drawing a circle with GsGLines would work fine. You just need to
calculate a series of points on the circumference of the circle and
connect them with line segments. As you would expect, the number of
lines will determine how round the circle looks.

Mario

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 01:54:54 -0700, "Linda J. Hodge"
<hodgke@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Mario or anyone that can help,
>I made my first program and am getting some errors. I am trying to
>display a bunch of circles on screen using a drawing function.I dont
>know which one thats the thing.I mean I got the math for it:
>
>for(index=0; index<1000; index++)
>	{
>	
>	xo   = 20 + rand()%300;
>	yo   = 20 + rand()%1800;
>	rad  = 1  + rand()%20;
>       color =      rand()%256;
>		
>		for(ang=0;ang<360; ang++)
>		   {
>		     x = xo  +  cos(ang*3.14/180) * rad;
>		     y = yo  +  cos(ang*3.14/180) * rad;
>			
>		//Now from here I need a function to put x,y and color on 
>		//to screen.I was thing of a GsLINE func to do the job 		//but that is
>for straight line endpoints only.Any 			//suggestions?	
>
>Thanks.