Re: Rotating a 2D graphic on screen?
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- Subject: [mg43695] Re: [mg43682] Rotating a 2D graphic on screen?
- From: Selwyn Hollis <sh2.7183 at misspelled.erthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:42:47 -0400 (EDT)
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You can use a rule to rotate all the points in the graphic; e.g.,
rotate[q_] := {{Cos[q], -Sin[q]}, {Sin[q], Cos[q]}}
graph = Plot[x^2, {x, -1, 1},
PlotRange -> {{-1, 1}, {-1, 1}}, AspectRatio -> Automatic]
Show[graph /. {x_?NumericQ, y_} -> rotate[Pi/3].{x, y},
PlotRange -> {{-1, 1}, {-1, 1}}, AspectRatio -> Automatic]
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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 01:47 AM, AES/newspost wrote:
> Any easy way to rotate a 2D graphic about it's center by an arbitrary
> number of degrees _after_ I've created it?
>
> I'd like to lay out and program the graphics in a certain set of x,y
> coordinates where the equations and formulas are simplest -- then
> rotate
> and display it in a rotated set of x',y' = Horiz,Vert coordinates. I
> can of course do the transformations "by hand" as I go along -- but
> it's just a messy process.
>
> Illustrator can do it, instantly, with an EPS graphic. Sure would be
> nice if Mathematica could?
>
>