Dilations Worksheets

What are Dilation Transformations? In mathematics, a dilation is a function from a metric space into itself that satisfies the identity for all points, where is the distance from to and is some positive real number. In Euclidean space, such a dilation is a similarity of the space. Dilations change the size but not the shape of an object or figure. OR A dilation is a transformation that produces an image that is the same shape as the original, but is a different size... A description of a dilation includes the scale factor (or ratio) and the center of the dilation. The center of dilation is a fixed point in the plane.