POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Basic usage instructions for Matrix Calc : Re: Basic usage instructions for Matrix Calc Server Time
9 Aug 2024 03:20:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Basic usage instructions for Matrix Calc  
From: Fabien Mosen
Date: 20 Aug 2000 13:02:57
Message: <39A00DA7.FDBC5C7@skynet.be>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   Just one question:
>   What's the difference between making a series of rotations, scales and
> translates in your program or in povray?
> 
>   Well, parsing a matrix may take a couple of milliseconds less than parsing
> 10 transformations, but does that matter?

I've yet to use the calculator, but I think it could have, at least,
a pedagogic purpose for those who wants to understand matrices.

Fabien.


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