Horizontal And Diagonal Backgrounds

A linear gradient brush's gradient stops are positioned along the gradient axis. The orientation and size of the gradient axis can be changed using the brush's StartPoint and EndPoint properties. By manipulating these properties, you can create horizontal, vertical, and diagonal gradients, reverse the gradient direction, condense the gradient spread, and more.

The StartPoint and EndPoint properties are relative to the area being painted. (0,0) represents the top-left corner of the area being painted, and (1,1) represents the bottom-right corner of the area being painted. The following diagram shows the gradient axis for a diagonal linear gradient brush:

To create a horizontal linear gradient, create a LinearGradientBrush object and set its StartPoint to (0,0) and its EndPoint to (1,0). Then, add two or more GradientStop objects to the LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops collection, that specify the colors in the gradient and their positions.

To create a diagonal linear gradient, create a LinearGradientBrush object and set its StartPoint to (0,0) and its EndPoint to (1,1). Then, add two or more GradientStop objects to the LinearGradientBrush.GradientStops collection, that specify the colors in the gradient and their positions.

A line is an identifiable path created by a point moving in space. It is one-dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length. Lines often define the edges of a form. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, straight or curved, thick or thin. They lead your eye around the composition and can communicate information through their character and direction.Examples:

Horizontal lines suggest a feeling of rest or repose because objects parallel to the earth are at rest. In this landscape, horizontal lines also help give a sense of space. The lines delineate sections of the landscape, which recede into space. They also imply continuation of the landscape beyond the picture plane to the left and right.

Diagonal lines convey a feeling of movement. Objects in a diagonal position are unstable. Because they are neither vertical nor horizontal, they are either about to fall or are already in motion. The angles of the ship and the rocks on the shore convey a feeling of movement or speed in this stormy harbor scene.

In a two-dimensional composition, diagonal lines can also indicate depth through perspective. These diagonal lines pull the viewer visually into the image. For example, in this photograph the diagonal lines lead the eye into the space to the point where the lines converge.

A gradient is a design technique that blends more than one color together in a smooth transition. For example, think of the Instagram logo. Gradients can come in handy when you want to create multi-color backgrounds or custom buttons, adding visual interest to your UI and guiding user attention.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the gradient becomes diagonal, starting somewhere between 0.5 and 1 moving downwards. If you have the value as either 0 or 1, the diagonal gradient will start at the respective corners, right or left.

Gradients can be used anywhere you would use an , such as in backgrounds. Because gradients are dynamically generated, they can negate the need for the raster image files that traditionally were used to achieve similar effects. In addition, because gradients are generated by the browser, they look better than raster images when zoomed in, and can be resized on the fly.

When using an angle, 0deg creates a vertical gradient running bottom to top, 90deg creates a horizontal gradient running left to right, and so on in a clockwise direction. Negative angles run in the counterclockwise direction.

For ellipses only, you can size the ellipse using a length or percentage. The first value represents the horizontal radius, the second the vertical radius, where you use a percentage this corresponds to the size of the box in that dimension. In the below example I have used a percentage for the horizontal radius.

If you make the background a regular linear-gradient(), and then make half the stripes totally transparent using repeating-linear-gradient(), it can appear as if the stripes have gradients. Because of multiple backgrounds (and stacking order), you can do that all together on a single element:

Perhaps a texture? Any image will work. You could reveal part of the image by making some stripes fully transparent and some fully opaque. Or, any combination. Again multiple backgrounds allows this to all happen on the same element.

If you wanted to get crazy, you could transform: rotate() some element with these straight stripes and cut off the overflow, in which to replicate diagonal stripes with deeper browser support. Sounds like a lot of work.

That definitely sounds like crazy & a lot of work. Get out your calculator (or maybe your CSS preprocessor can do the calculations for you), and figure out the vertical and horizontal distance between stripes of the same colour and use that for your background size.

In this tutorial, we will learn to scroll your web content vertically, horizontally and plus diagonally! Don't worry, we won't rely on javascript too much, we will use css/html for the layout and javascript only do the scrolling. And hey, it will still work even if your browser doesn't support javascript.

Depend on which direction you want to scroll your website, each of them have slightly different layout. For the horizontal and vertical, they use the same layout, whereas for diagonal, you have to add extra div to create the "diagonal". It sounds like a dirty trick, but hey, it works! :)

In PowerPoint 2013 for Windows, yourotate shapes using the white rotation handle that appears when youselect a shape. However, have you ever noticed that theopen line shape in PowerPoint doesn't show a whiterotation handle? Look at Figure 1, where you can see a diagonal, straight line on the left and a rectangle shape on the right. Bothare selected, yet notice that the rectangle shape includes a white rotation handle whereas there is no such handle on the Line shape.

Now, if you want to rotate any diagonal line such as the one shown in Figure 1 above to make it either a perfectlyhorizontal, or vertical line, how would you do that? Yes, you can right-click the line to bring up a contextual menu. Within this menu, select theFormat Shape option to bring up the Format ShapeTask Pane as shown in Figure 2. Here youcan find the Rotation option (highlighted in red within Figure 2), and type in a value.

But as you can notice, the selected diagonal line has an initial Rotation value of 0°. So, you really have no clue at thistime to determine how much you have to rotate to create a line that's standing vertically or sleeping horizontally! Even though itlooks like impossible, there is a workaround which can help you to make a Line shape a perfect horizontal, or vertical line usingthe Width and Height options that you see highlighted in blue withinFigure 2, above. Follow these guidelines to learn more:

Yes, now you have rotated your diagonal line. But have you noticed something? Is your line shape retaining its original length even after getting rotated?Unfortunately, it is not! Look at Figure 6 which shows a PowerPoint slide containing 3 Line shapes.

Look closely at Figure 6, and you will notice that both of the rotated lines have lost some length. None of them is of the same length as theoriginal line A is. To overcome this drawback, you should know the length of your diagonal line in the first place. But again, there is no specificoption in PowerPoint to achieve this! The good news is that we have a workaround for this too!

Find out the length of your diagonal line by following our Finding Length of a Diagonal Line in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows tutorial. Once you have noted down the length value, you can get back the original length ofthe rotated lines by following these guidelines:

OK, I've wracked my brain, Google, and stackoverflow trying to figure this out, but just can't quite get it. I'm trying to use a DrawingBrush with a DrawingGroup to do two things to the background of my WPF application (latest version). One, I want to have a RadialGradientBrush to put a subtle gradient in my background. This part is working just fine. The second part that I'm trying to accomplish is that I want to also have repeating diagonal lines as part of that background. I know I could do it with an image, but would rather use geometries, as I'm trying to learn and master WPF. Here's what I have so far. The radial appears fine, but the lines do not. Any help would be appreciated.

Vertical lines are perpendicular to the horizon. They are filled with potential energy that could be released if they were to fall over. Vertical lines are strong and rigid. They can suggest stability, especially when thicker. Vertical lines accentuate height and convey a lack of movement, which is usually seen as horizontal. 2b1af7f3a8