CHAPTER 21
Understanding Transformations
In this chapter, you will learn:
- What a transformation is
- What are translation, rotation, scale, and shear transformations and how to apply them to nodes
- How to apply multiple transformations to a node
What Is a Transformation?
A transformation is a mapping of points in a coordinate space to themselves preserving distances and directions between them. Several types of transformations can be applied to points in a coordinate space. JavaFX supports the following types of transformation:
- Translation
- Rotation
- Shear
- Scale
- Affine
An instance of the abstract Transform class represents a transformation in JavaFX. ...
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