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From: charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: IFF form for 2D drawings (again)
Message-ID: <1410005@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 88 01:30:17 GMT
References: <11640003@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> Quite often, rotations are implemented as modifiers to existing shapes.
> That is, a rectangle rotated by 45 degrees becomes something like:
> <45 deg rotation>.

Interesting...  This would affect how much space that would be
required for storage and archival.  That is, I assume the data
 would be larger
that the  + the  but
smaller that the .  Thus this proposal would
result in smaller data bases if most rectangles are not rotated.
Conversely, this proposal would result in larger data bases if most
rectangles are rotated.  So the application would determine the best
choice here.  Isn't that usually the case?
	Charles Brown		charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com