The document discusses line drawing algorithms in computer graphics. It defines a line segment and provides equations to determine the slope and y-intercept of a line given two endpoints. It then introduces the Digital Differential Analyzer (DDA) algorithm, an incremental scan conversion method that calculates the next point on the line based on the previous point's coordinates and the line's slope. The algorithm involves less floating point computation than directly using the line equation at each step. An example demonstrates applying DDA to scan convert a line between two points. Limitations of DDA include the processing costs of rounding and floating point arithmetic as well as accumulated round-off error over long line segments.