Dilation Around a Point

Explanations 4

• A dilation is where an object gets resized to form an image, the resulting shape. The image is similar to the object, thus has a scale factor/ratio of distances.

  By Hyunwoo (David) Lee

• The intuition behind dilation (homothety) is changing the size of a figure without changing the shape of the figure, e.g. a square with side length 1 changing to a square with s…

  By Freya Edholm, wheresmycookie

• Dilation/Homothety So what is homothety (huh-MA-tha-tee)? Homothety is the mapping of a figure to a similiar figure of a bigger or smaller size. In other words, given a point HH…

  By Kevin Jiang, Ryan Soedjak, Alexander Duan

• Dilation is the idea of scaling objects to become larger or smaller, and is very similar to the notion of "zooming in and out" of a diagram. So with a dilation, all lengths are …

  By Matthew Babbitt, Moor Xu