Chapter 6 Drawing with Paths
All Quartz drawing falls into of one of three fundamental categories: line art (graphics that consist of paths that are filled, stroked, or both), sampled images, and text. Understanding how to draw with paths and the way Quartz paints them is a key part of understanding the Quartz imaging model.
Quartz paths are mathematical descriptions. A path can consist of straight-line segments and Bézier curve segments– both quadratic and cubic. Primitive path construction functions add these types of segments to create a path. In addition, Quartz has a number of convenience functions to add path segments for the most common shapes. Paths are constructed separately from painting them. You can fill, stroke, or fill and stroke ...
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