Wolfram: Graphics Misc

Smart Function: Rotate

Rotate is a smart function, that can rotate text, or other input in a smart way. Typically it's used for graphics design. Not good for mathematical programing or programing geometry.

Its input can be anything, and will smartly do rotation or other to the input, and display it.

Its input can also be Graphics Primitive , but will display a rotated version of text:

Its input can also be a Graphics object. The result is rotated graphics, including things such as axes:

If you compare Rotate vs GeometricTransformation and RotationTransform, For example,

Rotate[ graPrims , 30 Degree, {0,0}]

is roughly the same as

GeometricTransformation[ graPrims , RotationTransform[ 30 Degree ] ]

when their result is shown inside Graphics. but the Rotate version will directly display the result of literal rotated text of its input.

(* compare Rotate vs GeometricTransformation *)

graPrims = {Line[ {{0,0}, {1,0}} ]};

re1 = Rotate[ graPrims , 30 Degree, {0,0}]

re2 = GeometricTransformation[ graPrims , RotationTransform[ 30 Degree ] ]

Graphics[{re1, re2}, Axes -> True]

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