Clipping
Explore how clipping in Pycairo restricts drawing to defined regions and allows for creating complex vector shapes by intersecting paths. This lesson helps you understand setting clip regions and using clipping to simplify intricate designs.
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What is clipping?
Under normal circumstances, Pycairo allows us to draw anywhere on the page.
When we define a clip region, we can only draw within that defined region. Anything outside that region will not be drawn.
The diagram below shows this. The clip region is a square, shown in grey in the first panel of the slide. The path consists of a green square and a thick orange line, shown in the center panel. The clip-path is ...