Good to know! Thanks.


> From: "H. Gluender" <h@...>
> Reply-To: <futurebasic@...>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:01:29 +0100
> To: FB Mailing List <futurebasic@...>
> Subject: Re: [FB] Beginner: Screen Coordinates
> 
> Deep wrote:
> 
> "The others such as CoreGraphics, Quartz, OpenGL, etc, all use the bottom
> left as the origin point. This takes it's cue from PostScript. Apple used to
> refer to CoreGraphics and Quartz as "Display PostScript" until they were
> given the official Apple names."
> 
> Actually it wasn't Apple but NexT (and perhaps other companies) who
> started with "Display PostScript".
> 
> Origin at Bottom-Left is just what Monsieur Rene Descartes proposed
> about 350 years ago and what is used since in mathematics. It was
> only with computer science (informatics) that the origin was
> transfered to Top-Left and producing a lot of silly confusion...
> 
> Best
> -- 
> 
>                    Herbie
> 
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