# Pattern Transformation Result

When you run PatMax, it returns a transformation that describes how the trained pattern maps into the found instance. You can use the information in this transformation in two ways:

- As a transformation object that you can use to convert any location from the trained pattern to the corresponding location in the run-time image. You can use the transformation object to transform points between the selected space of the trained pattern (translated by any nonzero pattern origin) and the selected space of the run-time image.
- As individual values for the ordinary degrees of freedom (the location of the pattern origin) and individual values for each of the generalized degrees of freedom that you have enabled

The following figure shows an example of a pattern being translated, scaled in the y-axis, and rotated. While you could use the individual values for translation, y-scale, and rotation change to compute where the point of interest is in the run-time image, simply applying the returned transformation object to the point of interest returns the new point of interest directly.