Jack Elton Bresenham (born October 11, 1937,

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, US) is a former professor of

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Bresenham retired from 27 years of service at

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as a Senior Technical Staff Member in 1987. He taught for 16 years at

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and has nine

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s. He has four children.

Bresenham's line algorithm Bresenham's line algorithm is a line drawing algorithm that determines the points of an ''n''-dimensional raster that should be selected in order to form a close approximation to a straight line between two points. It is commonly used to draw li ...

, developed in 1962, is his most well-known innovation. It determines which points on a 2-dimensional

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should be plotted in order to form a straight line between two given points, and is commonly used to draw lines on a computer screen. It is one of the earliest algorithms discovered in the field of

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. The midpoint circle algorithm shares some similarities to his line algorithm and is known as ''Bresenham's circle algorithm''. * Ph.D.,

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, 1964 *

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, 1960 * BSEE,

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, 1959

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DADS entry on Bresenham's algorithm
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