Nostalgia trip

[Bob Bradlee]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:10:57 +0000, Roger Holmes wrote:

>> Wouldn't that imply that your system works off of a basis of 256  
>> degrees
>> instead of 360?
>>

>In this case, 1/262144 of a circle as it was on an 18 bit computer,  
>but today you would probably use 32 bits. There's nothing special  
>about dividing a circle into 360 parts anyway, 420 would have allowed  


2PI are Round! 
There are 2Pi radians in a circle, very few in the graphics world use interger degrees for anything other 
than human readable or heman generated I/O. A line is bounded by 2 points or can be described as a 
angle and distance from a relitave point. While Arc's can be specified by a start, end, and center point, 
Curves are almost always specified in radians. Autodesk had an interesting bulge value.

In the graphics world 2 pi are round and can represent an infinate number of angles, and truely not 
square :)

Bob