Re: drawing ellipses

[benben <benhongh mlist gmail com>]

Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> How do I draw an ellipse (or rectangle, for that matter), rotated by some
> angle? I know about Drawable::draw_arc() and draw_rectangle(), but these
> only draw the objects with the semiaxes parallel to the image axes. I
> imagine I have to set up some transformation matrix, and I don't know what
> to look for. Thanks!

You either need an some 3D graphics system (e.g. OpenGL) or manually 
break the shape into little segments and draw them individually.

I guess the former is easier.

Ben