For some reason that comment brings back memories of writing Basic on an Apple II when I was kid, where it only had “hlin” and “vlin” commands - only axis-align

For some reason that comment brings back memories of writing Basic on an Apple II when I was kid, where it only had “hlin” and “vlin” commands - only axis-aligned lines, no function for diagonal lines. Yeah the API counts as a hood, I would say modern GPUs and CPUs have multiple hoods… multiple API layers… hoods under hoods. It’s hoods all the way down. :P An interesting generalization of Bresenham is the DDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_differential_analyzer_(graphics_algorithm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_differential_analyzer_...