© 1979 by British Computer Society
A plotter sequencing system
Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Plotting time depends on the sequence of plotter operations. The system described in this paper selects a sequence in which the movements made while the pen is up are reduced. The separate lines forming a picture are temporarily stored in an internal memory area, from which the line nearest the present location of the pen is plotted next and replaced by a new one. The performance of the sequencer was experimentally tested.
Received March 1978. revised October 1978.
* Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, 20500 Turku 50, Finland