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#	File:     modlines.icn
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#	Subject:  Procedure to produce trace of modular lines
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#	Author:   Ralph E. Griswold
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#	Date:     August 3, 2000
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#   This file is in the public domain.
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#  For a description of the method used here, see
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#	Geometric and Artistic Graphics; Design Generation with
#	Microcomputers, Jean-Paul Delahaye, Macmillan, 1987, pp. 90-95.
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#  Links:  calls, gobject, gtrace
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link calls
link gobject
link gtrace

#  modlines produces a trace of lines between points selected modulo n,
#  where n is the number of points on a supporting curve.  k is an
#  offset factor.  A trace of the supporting curve is produced by call.
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procedure modlines(call, m, k, limit)
   local points, n, i

   /limit := 500			# maximum number of points allowed

   points := point_list(call, limit)

   n := *points				# number of points on supporting curve

   every i := 0 to m do {
#     i1 := i % n + 1
#     i2 := (i * k) % n + 1
      suspend points[(i % n + 1) | ((i * k) % n + 1)]
      }

end