Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!texas.asd.sgi.com!robert From: robert@texas.asd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Point in Polygon; a few more comments Message-ID: <1990Sep11.163420.13592@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 11 Sep 90 16:34:20 GMT References: <1990Sep06.124709.996@eye.com> <33619@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: robert@sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Entry Systems Division Lines: 32 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> 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 I didn't see any smiley's after this one Peter. I'm sure that many readers don't realize that the XOR-cursor in hardware *IS* patented. ... and that's not the only obvious technique that this particular company has a patent on. Robert Skinner robert@sgi.com Watch out where the Huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow. - Frank Zappa