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rjwalsh@maths.tcd.ie (Robert Walsh) writes:

>Does anyone know how to map a bitmap of arbitary size into an polygon
>of arbitary size (the simplest example is mapping a bitmap into a
>square)? 

Yes.  Clip it.

Seriously, it all depends HOW you want it mapped.  I could map a large
image to a small square by clipping it.  You have to make some constraints
before you can start devising an algorithm.

One possibility would be to have the following restriction:

	If pixels A and B and on the same horizontal line in the original
	and they both appear in the final, then they must be on the
	same horizontal in the final.

Now the problem is simply one of mapping a line of pixels:

         ************************************************

to a sequence of lines of pixels:

    *************  ****************************     *******


Easy.
Warwick
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