Image files {vector file} {geometric file} can use mathematical formulas that software {object-oriented graphics} {vector graphics} {computer graphics} {graphics} {draw program} manipulates. Vector-graphics images transform easily, look good on higher-resolution displays, and use less memory than bitmaps.
fonts
Scalable fonts {True Type font} {vector font} {scalable font} {object-oriented font} {outline font} use vector graphics.
parameters
Main parameter is geometric-object type, such as rectangle. x, y, and z coordinates locate figure. Width and height are dimensions. Lines have color and size. Fill has color, opacity, orientation, and pattern.
spline
Splines represent lines and can represent boundary lines that divide surfaces into polygons.
surfaces
Closed surfaces can be polygons, such as triangles. Surfaces can be parallel lines or grids.
volumes
Splines and generalized ellipses or ellipsoids can represent volumes.
formulas
Vector graphics uses formulas for points, lines, splines, polygons, circles, ellipses, Bézier curves, Bézier splines {bezigon}, text in Bézier curve fonts, Catmull-Rom splines, NURBS, and rectangle bitmaps. For example, circle information includes radius, center point, line style, line color, fill style, and fill color. Formulas can combine.
formulas: transformations
Most formulas allow transformations, such as rotation, translation, reflection, scaling, stretching, and skewing. Programs can perform logical and set operations. Programs can also add surface-texture bitmaps, add shading, and smooth irregularities.
bit map
Images can be pixel arrays {bit map} {raster file} that software {raster graphics} manipulates. Programs {paint program} can make bit maps smaller or larger, but enlarged images have blank or repeated areas. Vector graphics convert to raster graphics for dot-matrix printers, laser printers, and display monitors, but not plotters.
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