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The development of computer graphics constraint systems has been of considerable interest in recent years. It is desirable that constraints may be dynamically incorporated into selected graphics output primitives, and also into graphics segments as a whole at the time of their interactive construction. The constraints usually take the form of coupled equations or inequations limiting the rendition of graphics primitives or segments. After a few constraints have been defined in the graphics constraint system, the interaction of these rules becomes quite complicated, and it has been necessary to provide a constraint equation solver to resolve these interactions and take control over the decisions for the rendition of all graphics primitives and segments.
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Rankin, J.R. (1995). A Graphics Object-Oriented Constraint Solver. In: Laffra, C., Blake, E.H., de Mey, V., Pintado, X. (eds) Object-Oriented Programming for Graphics. Focus on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79192-5_7
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