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cuckooman4 β MS Paint Rotation Calculator
Published: 2007-07-17 00:05:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 20377; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 223
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Note: I didn't bother worrying about negative angles when writing this, so there may be weird results -- use positive equivalents, e.g., 350 degrees instead of -10 degrees.Your result will be quite grainy/jagged-looking, so try scaling the picture up first, rotating, then scaling it back down again.
Unfortunately, MS Paint doesn't like non-integer scaling, so the second and fourth steps are rounded to the nearest percentage point.
The Formula: (which you may be able to find more information about by googling "three shear rotation")
horizontal skew x
vertical stretch 1 + tanΒ²(x)
vertical skew -x
scale cos(x)
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Comments: 21
I just found this recently and have been using it on pretty much a weekly basis. Β It just makes things SO much easier. Β Thanks for putting this together!
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Thank you soooo much for making this! It has saved me much time and many tears. You sir have earned you ice cream and cookies! XD
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Thanks for this tool--it's really helpful for MS Paint art.
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Guy.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
I've always refused to join DA just to comment something, no matter how awesome the stuff was, but I FU CKING HAD TO DO THAT THIS TIME.
I'm a pixel artist and I often work with angles. I had to make very complicated calculations that took quite some time and where a pain in the ass (it is hard to calculate with pixels, diagonals size =/= side size).
Bringing rulers and such stuff to a computer screen wouldn't work, and I'm often lazy to search wich calculation is better to use (like, in a book or something).
Your calculator matches EXACTLY my calculations, but a thousandfold faster.
Thank you man, I'll never forget it, I'll tell other people about this awesome thing.
Wow, just noticed I'm late.
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You know, I've gotten through Calculus II in college by now, and I STILL have no clue how you derived the precise calculations.
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Holy crap. You're a lifesaver. This is amazing.
Do you mind if I drool?
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and if you're wondering why I find this so amazing, it's because I'm doing an isometric pixel-art spiral staircase. This makes everything a million times easier.
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Well.
Glad to hear this is useful for someone.
(oh and I never check my dA)
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Really useful for MS Paint enthusiasts such as myself.
Only suggestion is to maybe allow the user to move that little dial in the corner to select the angle.
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Tried that, could've figure out how to make it work. (I get the theory, use tangent with the motion of the mouse from mousedown to present, but I can't actionscript it right.)
Oh, and is that Portal in your avatar?
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Yep. It was part of my Fireworks assignment in Web desing It was supposed to animate. Damn Fireworks...I'm gonna fix it soon, hopefully.
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yes, it IS Portal in my avvy. THe old one was SUPPOSED to animate, but Fireworks messed it up. I did it in Flash, so now it works.
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Uh-huh.
Flash rocks.
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sweeeet.
I dunno if i'll have any use for this, but it's still
sweeeet.
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sweeeet.
Two comments.
sweeeet.
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that is neat. didn't bother reading whatever the description was but it looks neat. good day sir.
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Okay. Basically, this calculates the method with which you can use to rotate any integer angle in Paint.
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