Which of the following transforms in 2 dimension is used to resize a 2-dimensional object? 

The correct answer is Scaling

Key Points

• Scaling:
  • Scaling is a geometric transformation that changes the size of a figure or a space, but not its shape.
  • This transformation can either enlarge (scale up) or reduce (scale down) the dimensions of the object by a specific scale factor.
  • This is the transform used to resize a 2D object.
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Additional Information

• Translation:
  • This is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure or a space by the same distance in a given direction. In 2D space, you can think of it as simply sliding the entire object either horizontally, vertically, or both.
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• Rotation:
  • Rotation is a transformation that turns a figure or a space around a fixed point, called the center of rotation. The amount of rotation is typically specified in degrees.
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• Shearing:
  • Shearing is a transformation that distorts the shape of an object such that the angles between its points are changed, but not their collinearity or incidence relationships. You can think of it as a sort of "skew" transformation, slanting the object in a specific direction while keeping all points along a shear invariant parallel line in their original locations.
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