One of the operations that low-level APIs tend to give you that higher level graphics systems tend to ignore is the bitblt - bit-block operation (pronounced bit-blit). This is essentially a low-level ...

In the early part of this book the emphasis was on creating graphics by drawing on the canvas. By contrast the latter part of the book is about loading graphics files into the canvas. Why would you ...

Sometimes you want to render a visual on the fly, or even animate it. Perhaps the visual is a complex path where the set of x,y coordinates dictate what to render. Or perhaps the visual is a graph ...