slab
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 | This is the JargonFile (V4.00) entry for slab - Next: slack, Prev: skulker |
| :slab: [Apple] 1. /n./ A continuous horizontal line of pixels, all with the same color. 2. /vi./ To paint a slab on an output device. Apples QuickDraw, like most other professional-level graphics systems, renders polygons and lines not with Bresenhams algorithm, but by calculating slab points for each scan line on the screen in succession, and then slabbing in the actual image pixels. | |
| * (text is auto-included via JargonExtension by mutante using jargon with VERSION 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996 - JargonFile by Eric S. Raymond is in the public domain) | |
