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Cap Style
The cap style can be one of: butt, round or
square. (See Figure 9.2.)
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Figure 9.2: Cap styles: (a) butt, (b) round,
(c) square. Note that the round and square caps protude from
the start and end vertices.
Note that the cap is affected by whether the
path is open or closed. In
Figure 9.3(a) the path is an open path where the
end points happen to coincide; in Figure 9.3(b)
the path is a closed path.
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Figure 9.3: The cap style is affected by whether the path is open or
closed: (a) butt cap applied to an open path; (b)
butt cap applied to a closed path.
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