Graphics Interactivity & Drawing

The Wolfram Language's unified symbolic graphics architecture makes possible powerful mixing of programmatic graphics generation with interactive editing and control. The Wolfram System Drawing Tools palette makes it straightforward to modify existing plots or illustrations—or to create free-form ones from scratch.

Direct Interactive Drawing & Editing

— create a new empty graphic

— bring up the Drawing Tools palette

Multiclick — select subparts of groups and insets

Drag — resize changing aspect ratio

Programmatic Interactive Graphics »

Manipulate — create a complete framework for interactive graphics

Locator — interactively movable control point

LocatorPane  ▪  ClickPane  ▪  EventHandler  ▪  ...

Interactive 3D Control »

Drag — rotate a 3D graphic

Drag (Drag on Mac) — zoom

Imported Graphics

Cell ▶ Convert To ▶ StandardForm — make a copied graphic evaluatable

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