In computer graphics, there are three types of transformations: scaling, translation, and rotation: The scaling transformation changes the dimensions of a shape but not its basic form. If you scale an ellipse by 0.5, you’ll get another ellipse that’s half as wide and half as tall as the original one.The translation transformation moves a shape…
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The Framework provides several drawing methods, one for each basic shape. You can create much more elaborate shapes by combining the methods described in the following sections. All…
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Now that we’ve covered the auxiliary drawing objects, we can look at the drawing methods of the Graphics class. Before getting into the details of the drawing methods,…
This is a good point to introduce some of the objects we’ll be using all the time when drawing. No matter what…
You have seen the basics of displaying images on your forms; now let’s move on to some real graphics operations, namely how…
Some of the most interesting and fun parts of a programming language are its graphics elements. In general, graphics fall into two…
