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Strange size changes in Manipulate with GeometricTransformation

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  • Subject: [mg92156] Strange size changes in Manipulate with GeometricTransformation
  • From: Nazdrovje <nazdrovje at gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:24:39 -0400 (EDT)

Hi group,

I was playing with Manipulate and GeometricTransformation and found a
strange difference in behaviour when manipulating the orientation of a
circle containing a line depending on how it was drawn. Below, I
provide two ways of drawing this configuration. The first one behaves
as expected, but moving the slider in the second example results in
unexpected size changes.

I suppose it must have something to do with bounding boxes of the
building blocks, but I don't quite get it. I also feel the behaviour
of the second one is actually wrong. What do you folks think?

Cheers -- Nazdrovje

This one rotates as expected:

Manipulate[
 Graphics[
  GeometricTransformation[
   {
    Circle[],
    Line[{{-1, 0}, {1, 0}}]
    }, RotationTransform[x =B0]
   ]
  ], {x, -180, 180}
 ]

This one behaves erratical:

Manipulate[
 Graphics[
  GeometricTransformation[
   {
    EdgeForm[Black],
    FaceForm[],
    Disk[{0, 0}, 1, {\[Pi], 2 \[Pi]}],
    Disk[{0, 0}, 1, {0, \[Pi]}]
    }, RotationTransform[x =B0]
   ]
  ], {x, -180, 180}
 ]


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