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Controlling interference in graphics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

P. A. Firby
P. A. Firby*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Exeter, EX4 4QE
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Graphical Interference can be attractive and it can be disturbing. We might want to live with it or we might want to avoid it, and in this article we see that elementary geometry suffices to analyse the phenomenon so that we can control it as we wish.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 71 , Issue 456 , June 1987 , pp. 118 - 124
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1987

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