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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Rotating regions?
Message-ID: <18268@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 90 16:46:14 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.040547.184@bushido.uucp>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <1990Nov14.040547.184@bushido.uucp> mnowak@bushido (Michael A. Nowak) writes:
>Is it possible to rotate a QuickDraw region by some arbitrary number of
>degrees?  Alternatively, is the format of a region data structure more
>fully described somewhere so one could write a routine to rotate a
>region?  As a last resort, am I better off using a different kind of
>data structure which would be easier to scale and rotate?  I need the
>relatively arbitrary shape that regions can take on but I do need to be
>able to scale and rotate.


On Page 260 in the UMPG is Juri Munkki's excellent article on Bitmap
rotation. It also includes an explantion of the region format.




>Michael Nowak












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