Re: Draw a scaled arrow

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 19 May 2008 18:51:05 -0400
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In article <D9mdnSaby8IXVqzVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com>,
 RichT <someone@somewhere.org> wrote:

[...]
It is at this point I wish I had paid attention in Math class...
[...]
I am already using a transform to scale and translate the image when it
is zoomed at a particular point, would this affect th other transform?


Yes. From math class, matrix multiplication is _not_ commutative:-) In
particular, the normal concatenation of operations in AffineTransorm
applies the transformations in reverse order. See concatenate() and
preConcatenate().

In the example below, each arrow is rotated about its tip, then scaled,
then translated to its destination. Suppose you wanted to rotate each
arrow about its center. The arrow is four units wide, so translate(-2,
0) before rotating. Experiment with adding the translate() in different
places to see the effect.

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Polygon;
import java.awt.Shape;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

/**
 * Test AffineTransform
 * @author John B. Matthews
 */
public class Arrows extends JFrame {

    private static Shape arrow = initPoly();
    private static AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JFrame frame = new Arrows();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setSize(400, 400);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        Graphics2D g2D = (Graphics2D) g;
        g2D.setPaint(Color.BLACK);
        g2D.drawLine(0, 200, 400, 200);
        g2D.drawLine(200, 0, 200, 400);
        g2D.setPaint(Color.BLUE);
        drawShape(g2D, 100, 100, Math.PI / 2);
        drawShape(g2D, 300, 100, Math.PI);
        drawShape(g2D, 100, 300, 0);
        drawShape(g2D, 300, 300, -Math.PI / 2);
    }

    /**
     * Draw a rotated, scaled and translated arrow.
     * Note that the normal order of concatenation
     * applies the last transforamtion first.
     * @see AffineTransform#concatenate()
     */
    private void drawShape(Graphics2D g2D, int x, int y, double theta) {
        at.setToIdentity();
        at.translate(x, y);
        at.scale(30, 30);
        at.rotate(theta);
        Shape shape = at.createTransformedShape(arrow);
        g2D.fill(shape);
    }

    /** Create a west pointing arrow with the tip at the origin. */
    private static Polygon initPoly()
    {
        Polygon poly = new Polygon();
        poly.addPoint( 0, 0);
        poly.addPoint( 3, -1);
        poly.addPoint( 2, 0);
        poly.addPoint( 3, 1);
        return poly;
    }
}
John
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