How Your Computer Draws Lines

Computer graphics have been a fundamental field of computer science and has interesting roots. How were simple shapes like lines, which are the basis of all other graphics, drawn efficiently back in the day?

References

“Bresenham’s Line Algorithm.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Aug. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm#:~:text=Bresenham’s%20line%20algorithm%20is%20a,straight%20line%20between%20two%20points.
“Jack Elton Bresenham.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Aug. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Elton_Bresenham.
“Xiaolin Wu’s Line Algorithm.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 July 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaolin_Wu%27s_line_algorithm.

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