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From: "Antony Arciuolo" <antony.arciuolo@mail.trincoll.edu>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Collision detection with rotating sprites
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 11:51:09 -0500
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There are fixed point methods, but are these the slow ones to which you
refer?
If not I have one that works pretty good and I've never noticed an impact on
performance.

- Tony


George Bain wrote in message <748a63$c3e3@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>
>Hi Miles,
>
>I think you might have to decide whether you want
>your routine to be very accurate or very fast.  I
>tend to stay far clear from sqrt().
>