Understand the key concepts behind composition and inheritance that allow you to build reusable and flexible types in your .NET applications. Two of the key concepts in object-oriented programming ...

Composition is one of the more difficult things to learn. There are many rules and guidelines that can make a good composition. The crop tool inside Lightroom and Photoshop offers a bit of help to ...

We are quite familiar to the rule of thirds, the golden ratio, and perhaps the Fibonacci spiral. We know how to use it in photography, more or less, and we all have heard about breaking these ...

This is a set of notes on composition, loosely based on ideas of composition from the Victorian era. There’s quite a bit more, and yet quite a bit less, to the Victorian ideas. First and foremost, ...

In Java 101: Inheritance in Java, Part 1, you learned how to leverage inheritance for code reuse, by establishing is-a relationships between classes. Composition is a closely related programming ...

In last month’s “Learning to Look” column we explored color, a delightfully complex element of art and design. Like shape, value, space, form, line, and texture, color is considered a structural ...