2D games do this all the time. It's more than a OS problem. -Gary- -----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Allan Odgaard Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:04 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Region Library? A region is used as the term to describe a set of rectangles -- e.g. could be as simple as std::vector<rectangle>. When working with regions, one often needs to perform various operations like finding the intersection of two regions, the union, subtract one region from another or xor two regions (which is the union minus the intersection). I would like to know if there is a) any interest in such a library and/or b) if such a library already exists? I figure the usefulness of such a library mostly has to do with optimizing (and clipping) refresh in a graphical view port, which is often something the operating system takes care of. And thus user code rarely has to deal with these things. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost