Translation along a vector
- Author:
- alison
In this graph, there is a translation of image ABCD along vector {-2,5} to create image A'B'C'D'. The properties needed to make this transformation a translation are...the pre-image and the image have sides of the same length and angles of the same measure...each pair of corresponding points have the same distance between them...each drawn vector between pairs of corresponding points is parallel. To prove that this is an accurate translation, draw a vector between each pair of corresponding points. Now, measure the distance between the start of one vector and the start of another vector in the diagram, then measure the distance between the ends of the same two vectors, if the measurements between the beginnings and the ends match then the vectors are parallel and the transformation is a translation.