Section 13.7 Drawing Polygons and Polylines

• Class Polygon contains methods for creating polygons.

• Polygons are closed multisided shapes composed of straight-line segments.

• Polylines (p. 578) are sequences of connected points.

Graphics method drawPolyline (p. 580) displays a series of connected lines.

Graphics methods drawPolygon (p. 580) and fillPolygon (p. 581) are used to draw polygons.

Polygon method addPoint (p. 581) adds pairs of x- and y-coordinates to the Polygon.

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