[Magic-dev] nonmanhatten rotations

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Daniel,

> In the release notes I noticed "extensions for nonmanhatten geometries"  but I
> can't find functions for nonmanhatten rotations? (other than multiples of 90')
> Does anyone know where I can find them?--do they exist in version 7.3 or any
> version?

No, they don't.  Non-Manhattan rotations don't fit in very well with
Magic's tiled plane structures.  It would take some considerable hacking
to add routines to perform copies with non-Manhattan transformations.
A quick-and-dirty implementation could allow such cells to be displayed
but would forbid edit-in-place, connectivity searches, flattening, or
any other function that requires transforming coordinates between a
subcell and its parent.

					Regards,
					Tim

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