Abstract:Line drawing is a fundamental task for raster graphics. Any acceleration of the traditional line drawing process is of great significance. In this paper, a new line drawing algorithm is presented. The algorithm differs from the traditional line drawing algorithm in that a line is directly represented as a series of displacement codes consisting of 0 s and 1 s, which can be easily determined from a formula. Based upon periodic characteristics of the codes, a new adaptive multi-pixel line drawing algorithm is put forward.Both exerimental results and analysis show this algorithm greatly reduces the computation of line drawing and accelrates the line drawing process.