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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Rotating Rectangles, was (Re: IFF format for 2D CAD)
Summary: Oh.
Keywords: No, I'm not cyclic
Message-ID: <4152@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 22 May 88 15:49:41 GMT
References: <4096@gryphon.CTS.COM> <10630007@hpesoc1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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(Ross Cunniff) writes:
>
>That would be an interesting algorithm indeed; I've always wondered if
>anybody was working on psychic software :-).  Seriously, two points do
>not suffice if rectangles may be rotated.  How can the software tell the
>difference between these two rectangles:
>
>			 /\
>	+-----		+  \
>	|    |		 \  \	(pretend the second one has all right angles)
>	-----+		  \  +
>			   \/

Oh. I thought you were rotating them after the fact, not rendering rotated
rectangles. Never mind.

I still say they're polygons, not rectangles :-)


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard