Apparatus for drawing dotted lines having natural appearance

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Shape generating

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ABSTRACT:
An apparatus includes a memory which stores therein data of a dotted-line pattern, a unit which identifies successive pixels on a straight line to be drawn with respect to each line of a plurality of straight lines that are drawn side by side, a pattern reference unit which refers to the data of a dotted-line pattern while changing a reference address for accessing the memory in accordance with a slope of a dotted line to be drawn, and a drawing unit which draws the successive pixels in response to the data of a dotted-line pattern referred to by the pattern reference unit.

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