Pixels
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
—Lao-tzu
In this chapter:
– Specifying pixel coordinates.
– Basic shapes: point, line, rectangle, ellipse.
– Color: grayscale, “RGB.”
– Color transparency.
Note that we are not doing any programming yet in this chapter! We are just dipping our feet in the water and getting comfortable with the idea of creating onscreen graphics with text-based commands, that is, “code”!
1.1 Graph Paper
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