Preface ............................................................................... 2 Who Are You? ................................................................ 2 About This Book ............................................................. 2 About the Examples........................................................ 2 Font Conventions............................................................ 2 Request for Comments ................................................... 2 Acknowledgments........................................................... 2 Who Are You? ................................................................ 2 About This Book ............................................................. 3 About the Examples........................................................ 4 Font Conventions............................................................ 5 Request for Comments ................................................... 5 Acknowledgments........................................................... 6 Chapter 1. Introduction .................................................... 6 What Is Java 2D? ........................................................... 6 What Can Java 2D Do? .................................................. 7 Relatives ......................................................................... 9 Genesis........................................................................... 11 Where Do I Get a Graphics2D?...................................... 11 File Formats .................................................................... 13 Hello, 2D! ........................................................................ 14 Chapter 2. The Big Picture............................................... 18 Graphics2D ..................................................................... 18 The Rendering Pipeline .................................................. 19 All About Alpha ............................................................... 21 Compositing .................................................................... 23 Coordinate Space ........................................................... 24 Chapter 3. Geometry......................................................... 25 Points .............................................................................. 25 Find Your Inner Child ....................................................... 26 Shapes and Paths .......................................................... 27 If You're an Old Dog ......................................................... 27 Flattened Shapes .............................................................. 29 Lines and Curves ............................................................ 37 Rectangles...................................................................... 44 Ellipses and Arcs ............................................................ 48 Constructive Area Geometry .......................................... 51 Chapter 4. Painting and Stroking .................................... 54 Painting ........................................................................... 55 Stroking........................................................................... 66 Overlap ........................................................................... 70 Chapter 5. Rendering........................................................ 72 Transforming................................................................... 72 Angle Units ........................................................................ 79 Compositing .................................................................... 85 Clipping ........................................................................... 90 Rendering Hints .............................................................. 91 Chapter 6. Text .................................................................. 94 Overview ......................................................................... 94 Drawing Text................................................................... 96 What's an Iterator? ........................................................... 99 Fonts............................................................................... 109 Hint, Hint............................................................................ 112 Font Metrics .................................................................... 114 Chapter 7. Advanced Text Layout ................................... 120 Using the TextLayout Class ............................................ 120 Getting Close to the Metal .............................................. 135 Chapter 8. Color ................................................................ 141 If You're Not Too Picky... ................................................ 141 Physics and Physiology .................................................. 145 Color Spaces .................................................................. 146 Profiles............................................................................ 150 Putting It All Together ..................................................... 152 Chapter 9. Images ............................................................. 152 Overview ......................................................................... 153 Where Do Images Come From? ..................................... 154 Displaying Images .......................................................... 158 Drawing on Images ......................................................... 164 Double Buffering ............................................................. 166 A Useful Class ................................................................ 168 Chapter 10. Image Processing......................................... 170 The New Model............................................................... 170 Combining the Old and New Methods ............................ 171 An Appetizer ................................................................... 171 Predefined Operations.................................................... 178 Space and Time................................................................. 181 Roll Your Own................................................................. 188 Chapter 11. Image Guts.................................................... 190 BufferedImage ................................................................ 191 Color Models................................................................... 195 Who Was That Masked Bit? ............................................. 202 Rasters ........................................................................... 206 What's a Raster?............................................................... 206 Sample Models ............................................................... 216 Data Buffers.................................................................... 218 A PNG Decoder .............................................................. 219 Chapter 12. Devices.......................................................... 225 The Local Graphics Environment ................................... 226 The GraphicsDevice Class ............................................. 227 Device Configurations..................................................... 228 Chapter 13. Printing.......................................................... 230 How Printing Works ........................................................ 231 Controlling Printing ......................................................... 236 Power Printing ................................................................ 240 Chapter 14. Animation and Performance ....................... 253 It's Tougher Than You Might Think................................. 253 See for Yourself .............................................................. 254 Memory ........................................................................... 270 Optimizations .................................................................. 272 Figures............................................................................ 272 Figure 15-1 ..................................................................... 272 Figure 15-2 ..................................................................... 273 Figure 15-3 ..................................................................... 273 Figure 15-4 ..................................................................... 274 Figure 15-5 ..................................................................... 274 Figure 15-6 ..................................................................... 274 Figure 15-7 ..................................................................... 275 Figure 15-8 ..................................................................... 275 Figure 15-9 ..................................................................... 275 Figure 15-10 ................................................................... 275 Figure 15-11 ................................................................... 276 Figure 15-12 ................................................................... 276 Figure 15-13 ................................................................... 277 Figure 15-14 ................................................................... 277 Figure 15-15 ................................................................... 278 Figure 15-16 ................................................................... 278 Figure 15-17 ................................................................... 279 Figure 15-18 ..................................................................