Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

12. Graphics and Java 2D™

One picture is worth ten thousand words.

—Chinese proverb

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

—Paul Cézanne

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

—Pablo Picasso

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

—John Keats

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: To understand graphics contexts and graphics objects. To manipulate colors. To manipulate fonts. To use methods of class Graphics to draw lines, rectangles, rectangles with rounded corners, threedimensional rectangles, ...