HOWTO draw circles, arcs and vector graphics in SDL?

Question

(I\'m using SDL2)

SDL is a relatively small library for \"low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D\" It\'s us

Answer 1

This is an example of the Midpoint Circle Algorithm as referenced above. It doesn't require a math library and is very fast. (Renders in about 500 microseconds) This is what Windows uses/used to rasterize circles.

void DrawCircle(SDL_Renderer * renderer, int32_t centreX, int32_t centreY, int32_t radius)
{
   const int32_t diameter = (radius * 2);

   int32_t x = (radius - 1);
   int32_t y = 0;
   int32_t tx = 1;
   int32_t ty = 1;
   int32_t error = (tx - diameter);

   while (x >= y)
   {
      //  Each of the following renders an octant of the circle
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX + x, centreY - y);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX + x, centreY + y);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX - x, centreY - y);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX - x, centreY + y);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX + y, centreY - x);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX + y, centreY + x);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX - y, centreY - x);
      SDL_RenderDrawPoint(renderer, centreX - y, centreY + x);

      if (error <= 0)
      {
         ++y;
         error += ty;
         ty += 2;
      }

      if (error > 0)
      {
         --x;
         tx += 2;
         error += (tx - diameter);
      }
   }
}