Thread: what's up with square files?

I was just thinking, I was looking at someone's pic thing that we all get, the avatar, and i noticed they've got little notches on the four corners, so it's kinda like so:

Code:

   __________
  /          \
 /            \
|             |
|             |
|             |
|             |
|             |
 \            /
  \__________/

-finally got those dang dimensions right, i hate these stupid spaces...

and you see all that extra space there? imagine the picture was blown up a couple 1000 times, and those white spaces would then take up a LOT of space.

Well, just a thought, I wonder if in the future if we will ever have "amorpheus" files. For instance, the file above wouldn't be a block, it would actually be molded around the data, and the blank space wouldn't be anything.......

say you had a picture of a diamond with a corner in the middle of each side, with the normal file system, you'd have to waste ALL that space in the corners for nothing, whereas in the amorpheus system, it would just mold itself around the file's data, saving twice as much space almost!

just my two cents....