The Wolfram Language's unified symbolic graphics architecture makes possible powerful mixing of programmatic graphics generation with interactive editing and control. Adding a canvas provides a drawing surface that invokes attached drawing tools when selected.

Canvas — represent a canvas for free-form drawing

— border wrapping a canvas

Direct Interactive Drawing & Editing

— create a new empty canvas

— convert selection to or from a canvas

Multiclick — select subparts of groups and insets

Drag — resize changing aspect ratio

Programmatic Interactive Graphics »

Manipulate — create a complete framework for interactive graphics

Locator — interactively movable control point

LocatorPane   ▪ ClickPane   ▪ EventHandler   ▪ ...

Interactive 3D Control »

Drag — rotate a 3D graphic

Drag (Drag on Mac) — zoom

Interactive Element Highlighting

Highlighted — statically or dynamically highlight specific elements in visualization

PlotHighlighting — set global highlighting effects for visualizations

Imported Graphics

Cell ▶ Convert To ▶ StandardForm — make a copied graphic evaluatable