Rotate around Center of Mass

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Mark,

You could export a snapshot of the left and right sides of the image and "rotate" them around their right and left edges.

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On 7 jan 2012, at 19:15, AcidJazz wrote:

> Is there a way to rotate an image around it's center of mass?     I teach
> statistics, and one of the definitions of the mean is that it is the balance
> point of a distribution.   I'd like to actually show a distribution
> "balancing" back and forth, or actually spinning around its mean.   But, if
> I take an image of a very skewed distribution of scores (long tail) and
> tried to rotate it, it would rotate around the center of the /image/, which
> would not necessarily be the mean of the distribution.   I image that the
> solution involves extending the size of the image so that it is now centered
> on the mean, but without altering or moving the actual distribution.   In
> BlueMango's Clarify, after you take a snapshot, you can extend the size of
> the image without stretching the picture.  I would need a way to do that
> programmatically so that the horizontal center is the mean of the
> distribution.    Any suggestions??
> 
> Mark   
> 
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