[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] X11 uniform scaled wide lines and dashed lines; STROKE_CONTROL in Pisces

[Denis Lila]

> Very nice!  How does it compare to CubicCurve.solveCubic() (which I
> know 
> has issues with the 2 root case, but I got it from a "reliable source"
> - 
> some textbook on Numerical Recipes)?

I wrote a tests that generated 2559960 polynomials, and in 2493075 of
those, the computed roots were identical to within 1e-9. They were
different in the remaining 66885 cases, so that's 97.4% agreement.

I've looked through some of the differences, and in every case the
function from graphics gems is better in one of two ways:
1. the gg version will report more roots than the cc2d version, in
which case the polynomial has a double root and the cc2d version
completely misses it (example poly: a=19.000000, b=-20.000000,
c=-17.000000, d=18.000000, where cc2d misses the root at 1).

2. the gg version will report fewer roots than the cc2d version, in
which case there was a 0 root and the cc2d version incorrectly split
it into -1e-163 and 1e-163.

So, the graphics gems version seems to be much more stable. It
does have a problem where it can return NaN sometimes, because it
assumes that the polynomial is not a quadratic one, but that can
easily be fixed.

So, should I put this new cubic root finder in CubicCurve.solveCubic
and use that in pisces?

Regards,
Denis.