Bresenham's Line Algorithm

On a computer screen, the pixels indicating a slanted line are selected with Bresenham's algorithm, developed in 1962 while at IBM.

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Flanagan, C. "The Bresenham Line-Drawing Algorithm." http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/group/goa/mallinnus/lines/bresenh.html.

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Pegg, Ed Jr. "Bresenham's Line Algorithm." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource, created by Eric W. Weisstein. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BresenhamsLineAlgorithm.html

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