[Plplot-cvs] SF.net SVN: plplot:[11704] trunk/www/examples.php

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Revision: 11704
          http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/plplot/?rev=11704&view=rev
Author:   airwin
Date:     2011-04-14 19:42:07 +0000 (Thu, 14 Apr 2011)

Log Message:
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Add the 9 "fill" pages to be displayed on our website for example 27
plus give notice of our use of the -eofill option for these website
results.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/www/examples.php

Modified: trunk/www/examples.php
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--- trunk/www/examples.php	2011-04-14 19:30:17 UTC (rev 11703)
+++ trunk/www/examples.php	2011-04-14 19:42:07 UTC (rev 11704)
@@ -88,8 +88,17 @@
 	  array(26,  2, 1, "
 	<p>Demo of multi-lingual unicode versions of the first page of example 4.</p>
 	\n"),
-	  array(27, 10, 1, "
-	<p>Demo of drawing 'spirograph' curves - epitrochoids, cycolids, roulettes.</p>
+	  array(27, 19, 1, "
+	<p>Demo of drawing and filling 'spirograph' curves -
+epitrochoids, cycolids, roulettes.  We have specified the general
+PLplot option '-eofill' when generating these figures.  That means the
+spirographic curves will be filled using the even-odd fill rule rather
+than the (default) non-zero winding number fill rule.  The motivation
+for this choice is the even-odd rule produces more 'interesting'
+looking results than would be produced by the non-zero rule (where a
+much larger fraction of the complex spirographic curve would be
+filled).
+     	</p>
 	\n"),
 	  array(28,  5, 1, "
 	<p>Demo of 3-d writing of text (plmtex3 and plptex3).</p>


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