# Canvas Transformations | KIRUPA

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/canvas-transformations-kirupa/636243
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/canvas-transformations-kirupa/636243 "2017-03-20T10:13:45Z")
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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/canvas-transformations-kirupa/636243/1 "2017-03-20T10:13:46Z")

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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 20 December 2015

So far everything we've drawn on the canvas was done without thinking much about exactly what our pixels are drawn into. Saying that our pixels are drawn on the canvas is only one part of the full picture. Under the canvas is an invisible virtual grid:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/canvas/canvas\_transformations.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/canvas/canvas_transformations.htm)