6.13 (Optional) GUI and Graphics Case Study: Colors and Filled Shapes
Although you can create many interesting designs with just lines and basic shapes, class Graphics provides many more capabilities. The next two features we introduce are colors and filled shapes. Adding color enriches the drawings a user sees on the computer screen. Shapes can be filled with solid colors.
Colors displayed on computer screens are defined by their red, green, and blue components (called RGB values) that have integer values from 0 to 255. The higher the value of a component color, the richer that color’s shade will be. Java uses class Color (package java.awt) to represent colors using their RGB values. For convenience, class Color contains various predefined ...
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