Questions tagged [2d]
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How to produce simple 2D illustrations to accompany geometry answers?
In my answer about Affine Transformations I made some little illustrations to help the explanation.
How do you make an upload-able PNG quickly which expresses a geometrical or mathematical idea?
This question was contrived to support my postscript…
luser droog
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What part of the graphics chain rotates computer displays when in portrait mode?
When the display hardware is physically rotated 90 degrees, your graphics can still be rendered with the correct side up. Where is this rotation accomplished?
I can imagine a few possibilities:
A) The code for every low-level graphics primitive…
Joakim Rosqvist
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How do I interpret the format of the .flame files used by apophysis?
I pulled a .zip file from https://www.deviantart.com/clairejones/art/Apophysis-Starter-Flames-V-67029474 and the file I was interested was the .flame file which contains parameters for several different Fractal Flames.
One of them looks like…
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OpenSCAD: Using outline of 2D shape
module initial(letter, size) {
linear_extrude(height=size*4, center=true) {
text(letter, size=size, halign="center", valign="center", font=font);
}
}
I'm using this module to generate very tall letters that I then cut out of other shapes…
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Is there an existing method to draw a heart of stars that looks more like a heart?
I wrote a C program which prints a heartbeat (heart star) animation.
The key is to print a heart of stars, which looks like this
consists of line of stars and blanks.
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AlbertJ
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