Hughes/Computer Graphics, 3/E

Chapter 4. A 2D Graphics Test Bed

4.1. Introduction

Now that you are familiar with some aspects of WPF and have seen our promised test bed in use in building the Dürer renderer, we show you the details of the test bed—a framework for testing out ideas in graphics without a huge amount of overhead. There are actually two of these: one for 2D and one for 3D. This chapter introduces the 2D test bed; more complete documentation, along with the 3D test bed, are available on the book’s website. We refer to these as test beds because they resemble the test apparatus that an electrical engineer might use: a collection of instruments, power sources, and prototyping boards on which various circuits can be assembled and tested. Our design aims are modest: ...