Java 2D Graphics

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

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