Flood fill problem

[jkwilborn (Jack Wilborn)]

Don’t know if this will help, but read Lightburns reply on how flood fill works… You might be seeing the issue.

How to optimize moves

The option you likely want is called Flood Fill, but there’s a caveat: it’s almost always the wrong thing to use. I’ll explain: Standard raster scanning moves left to right, bottom to top (or top to bottom), in a smooth, continuous motion, resulting in very even output. Flood fill, or what you call intelligent fill, scans portions of the shape surrounded by whitespace, then moves to a different portion and fills that, and so on. The jumping around means that you rarely move bottom to top con…