Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!amdahl!pyramid!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpcvca!charles 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 Lines: 14 > 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 datawould 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