Dilation - Texas Instruments Cabri Geometry II Manual Book

For macintosh, windows, and ms-dos

Table of Contents

Dilation

The Dilation tool dilates an object by a specified factor with respect to a specified point.

Note: This factor may be any measurement or numerical value, regardless of units. The value is

presumed to be unit-less.

To create specific factors of dilation, please refer to " Numerical Edit" in the chapter "Using the

Display Toolbox."

Dilating an object

Select Dilation from the Transform toolbox.

Select the object to dilate.

Select the point of dilation.

Select the factor of dilation.

Modifying a dilation

Change the dilated image by either modifying the figure

that defines the factor, editing the value created by

Numerical Edit , moving the dilation point, or changing the

original object. Because it is a dependent object, you

cannot change the dilated image directly.

8-6

Chapter 8: Using the Transform Toolbox

Select the object to dilate.

Dilate this polygon

Select the dilation point.

with respect to this point

Select the dilation factor.

using this factor

The dilated image is created.

Copying permitted provided TI copyright notice is included

Table of Contents