Editing Bresenham's line algorithm (section)

==History==
Bresenham's line algorithm is named after [[Jack Elton Bresenham]] who developed it in 1962 at [[IBM]]. In 2001 Bresenham wrote:<ref name = DADS>Paul E. Black. ''Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures,'' [[National Institute of Standards and Technology|NIST]]. https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/bresenham.html</ref>
<blockquote>I was working in the computation lab at IBM's San Jose development lab. A [[Calcomp plotter]] had been attached to an [[IBM 1401]] via the 1407 typewriter console. [The algorithm] was in production use by summer 1962, possibly a month or so earlier. Programs in those days were freely exchanged among corporations so Calcomp (Jim Newland and Calvin Hefte) had copies. When I returned to Stanford in Fall 1962, I put a copy in the Stanford comp center library.

A description of the line drawing routine was accepted for presentation at the 1963 [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] national convention in Denver, Colorado. It was a year in which no proceedings were published, only the agenda of speakers and topics in an issue of Communications of the ACM. A person from the IBM Systems Journal asked me after I made my presentation if they could publish the paper. I happily agreed, and they printed it in 1965.</blockquote>