Translation - of a polygon From Latin: translatus - "carried
over," Moving a figure to a new location with no other changes.
Drag any orange dot to reshape the left (yellow) original
figure. Drag the image (right, gray) to translate it to a new
location. To translate a figure is to simply slide it somewhere
else. But in the move, you may not change the figure in any
other way. You cannot rotate it, resize it, or flip it over. You
may only slide it side to side, up and down. In the diagram
above,the original object is the yellow one on the left. By
translating it up and to the right, we get the gray object on
the right. This is called the translated "image" of the
original. Notice the vertices of the original are labelled A,B
etc. By convention, the corresponding vertices of the image are
labelled A' B' etc. The small dash after the letter is called a
'prime' so the vertices are pronounced "A prime, B prime" and so
on. Properties of translated objects The original object and its
image are - identical in every