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[Norman Vine]

Steve Lime  writes:
> 
> I see two needs. One for a buffering algorithm (I've looked and haven't
> found much of anything.)
> 
> The other is for a process to compute the distance between arbitrary
> shapes. 

Here is distance from polygon to a line code that should extend 
to distance from polygon to polygon easily
http://geometryalgorithms.com/Archive/algorithm_0112/algorithm_0112.htm

Norman