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7 Aug 2024 11:25:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Disc which is not flat  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 2 Dec 2001 01:36:12
Message: <3C09CCB4.4E9FE9EF@faricy.net>
Rune wrote:
> 
> "Dave Dunn" wrote:
> > If what you are saying is true, the initial value
> > for scale on any given object would be scale <0,0,0>.
> 
> Scale is an operation, not a property of the object. Thus there is no such
> thing as an initial scale.

Precisely.

Besides, look at it this way:
scale <1,1,1> = [1 0 0 0]
                [0 1 0 0]
                [0 0 1 0]
                [0 0 0 1]
as do rotate <0,0,0> and translate <0,0,0>; it is the *identity*.

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