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Designing your own graphics – Epson Apex-80 User Manual

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A little experimentation should tell you whether the reassigning code

can improve your graphics printouts.

Designing Your Own Graphics

This section takes you through the development of a graphics

program. The example is not especially complicated, but it does include

the same steps you would use for a more complex figure.

You should plan your figure with dots on graph paper, but before

beginning to place the dots, you must decide which graphics density

you want. Figure 6-2 shows the differences between three common

modes so that you can choose the one you want.

In this figure you can see the main rules for graphic design in the

three densities:

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In single-density no dots can be placed on vertical lines.

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In high-speed double-density, dots can be placed on vertical lines, but

no dots can overlap.

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In double-density, dots can be placed on vertical lines, and they can

overlap.

Figure 6-2.
Designing in different
densities

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Introduction to Dot Graphics