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Round Rects Are Everywhere

Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.

This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm. Bill had added new code to QuickDraw (which was still called LisaGraf at this point) to draw circles and ovals very quickly. Bill fired up his demo and it quickly filled the Lisa screen with randomly-sized ovals, faster than you thought was possible.

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