RE: [Freetype] ft_outline_reverse_fill broken?

[Changyuan Hu]

Congratulations! However, testing first 3 vertices in the contour is not safe, 
since the contour may be concave at this position. In this case, you will get a 
wrong result unless you test the signed area of the whole contour.

Changyuan

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: November 28, 2001 5:39 PM
> To: Changyuan Hu
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> Subject: Re: [Freetype] ft_outline_reverse_fill broken?
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> 
> Just tried it. I didn't test the  whole contour though, just the first 3 
> vertices in the contour.   It works great:)
> 
> thanks
> 
> henry
> 
> 
> On Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 10:52  AM, Changyuan Hu wrote:
> 
> > I selected character "I" as the representative then test its contour 
> > direction using simple the polygon area method. Any available single 
> > contour glyph can be used as the representative.
> >
> "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as 
> kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills 
> and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, 
> Nintendo, Inc, 1989
> 
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