A picture fitted into a box

One picture fitted into a box of one size eight ways: brought to four different sizes, stood against an edge, turned by a quarter and by an angle of its own, and mirrored — every panel drawn from the placement the rule worked out.

One picture, one box, eight answers. A fitting rule says how a picture is brought to the size of a box, where it sits in it, how much the box is shrunk first, and how far the picture is turned or mirrored on its way in. Every panel hands the same picture and the same box to a different rule.

Each panel then draws what comes back the same way: it applies the placement the rule worked out, then puts the picture down at its own size. Nothing is measured by hand anywhere. The panel that covers its whole box is the only one that overflows on purpose, so it is cut to the edge of that box.

What this example shows

• Fit inside, cover, stretch, or leave at its own size.
• Nine places to stand it, a margin inside the box, a rotation and a mirror.
• One worked-out placement answering for all of it, applied the same way every time.

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