Re: [NTLK] Drawing Circles on 2100 using "shapes" mode

From: John Charlton (johncharlton_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 06:56:35 PDT


On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Lord Groundhog wrote:

> Here's a strange one: for the sake of speed and screen real-estate
> (=3Dbeing
> too lazy to scroll or erase) I drew 4 circles one inside the
> other. I took
> no particular care to space my efforts, but the result was that
> Newt tried
> -- and very nearly succeeded -- in making 4 circles drawn inside
> one another
> evenly concentric. Only one spacing is clearly inaccurate. Is
> this thing
> programmed to 'guess' that one is trying to draw them evenly or was
> it dumb
> luck? Experimentation suggests Newt is guessing or assuming I want
> the
> circles to be approximately equidistant.

I suspect it does. If you draw lines they often snap to vertexes, and

>
> I lo-o-o-o-ve this Newton!

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