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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hit Detection
Message-ID: <1413@pur-phy>
Date: 12 Sep 88 04:11:28 GMT
References: <16974@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <16974@apple.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>
>A while ago, someone posted a clever way to test whether the user has
>clicked on a line, oval, etc.  It involved drawing the graphical shape into
>an offscreen bitmap and testing the appropriate bit.
>
Isn't this an old method used for simple collision detection?  (by old, I
mean at least five years, if not ten.)

-Sho