Category Archives: transformations

Test graphical transformations in C#

Posted on August 6, 2020 by RodStephens

This example draws several pictures to let you test graphical transformations. The general approach is the same for each picture. The following section explains how the program draws the pictures that demonstrate the various graphical transformations. The sections after that … Continue reading →

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Rotate images to straighten them in C#

Posted on January 27, 2020 by RodStephens

I’ve written a couple of examples that show how to rotate images. I made many of them because I wanted to adjust a picture I had taken that was slightly crooked. Those examples work well, but they can be fairly … Continue reading →

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Let the user draw rotated skewed polygons in C#

Posted on December 13, 2019 by RodStephens

The example Let the user draw rotated polygons with right angles in C# draws polygons with edges that are parallel or perpendicular to a baseline. This example is very similar except its polygons have edges that are parallel to one … Continue reading →

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Let the user draw rotated polygons with right angles in C#

Posted on December 8, 2019 by RodStephens

This example lets the user draw rotated polygons where all edges are either parallel or perpendicular to a defined baseline direction. As a result, all of the polygon’s angles are right angles. (And yes, I know that the polygons aren’t … Continue reading →

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Let the user zoom on a picture and draw in C#

Posted on March 8, 2019 by RodStephens

The example Let the user zoom on a picture in C# allows the user to zoom in on a picture and draw on it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t handle the drawing properly when the image is scaled. It doesn’t scale the … Continue reading →

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Map device coordinates to world coordinates in C#

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Rod Stephens

Sometimes it’s convenient to draw in one coordinate system (called world coordinates) and map those coordinates to the screen’s device coordinates. The example Map points between coordinate systems in C# shows how to do this in C#. For example, the … Continue reading →

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Draw improved text on a curve in C#

Posted on August 23, 2017 by RodStephens

This example shows how to draw improved text along a curved path. The example Draw text on a curve in C# shows how to draw text along a curved path. Unfortunately the spacing between the letters is pretty mediocre in … Continue reading →

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Rotate images that are scaled in C#

Posted on February 3, 2017 by RodStephens

The example Interactively rotate images in C# lets you click and drag to rotate images but it doesn’t always work well if the image you are rotating is too big to fit on the screen. The example Rotate images inside … Continue reading →

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Rotate images inside a scrolled panel in C#

Posted on February 2, 2017 by RodStephens

The example Interactively rotate images in C# lets you click and drag to rotate images. Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with images that are too big to fit on the screen. If an image is too big, the program lets … Continue reading →

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Interactively rotate images in C#

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Rod Stephens

The example Rotate images by an arbitrary angle in C# explains how you can rotate an image by a angle specified in a TextBox. This example lets you click and drag around the image’s center to specify the angle of … Continue reading →

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