Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Point in Polygon; a few more comments Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 00:35:39 GMT References: <1990Sep06.124709.996@eye.com> <33619@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <33619@cup.portal.com> ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda) writes: > Sorry to be a poop Eric, but my boss at Calma, Steve Hoffman, told me > about the "points on the ray are above the ray" thing in 1981. He claimed > someone told HIM several years before. > I think it's one of those things that just need to be attributed to the > anonamous coder. Another of those obvious techniques like the XOR-cursor. Good thing nobody patented *this* one... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com