I don't think this has do to with stroking, but with how shapes are stroked. I've derived a slighly simpler test from yours that shows the same problem with AA turned off and a Rectangle2D instead of an Ellipse2D. However, I am also missing a reasonable explanation why this is so, except rounding or accuracy problems in the stroking. Note how a g2.translate(0.5, 0.4) gets rid of the problem.
Interestingly enough, I've created a similar testcase that does practically the same on Cairo (outside of Java land) and shows similar results... import java.awt.BasicStroke; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Frame; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.RenderingHints; import java.awt.Stroke; import java.awt.geom.Arc2D; import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D; import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D; public class FillStrokeAnomaly extends java.applet.Applet { public void paint(Graphics g) { Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g; Rectangle2D.Double e1 = new Rectangle2D.Double(10,10,160,160); Rectangle2D.Double e2 = new Rectangle2D.Double(180,10,160,160); //first fill, then draw g2.setPaint(Color.ORANGE); g2.fill(e1); g2.setPaint(Color.BLACK); g2.draw(e1); //first draw then fill g2.setPaint(Color.BLACK); g2.draw(e2); g2.setPaint(Color.ORANGE); g2.fill(e2); } public static void main(String[] args) { Frame f = new Frame(); f.add(new FillStrokeAnomaly()); f.setSize(600, 400); f.setVisible(true); } } [Message sent by forum member 'roman_kennke' (roman_kennke)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=206988 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".