POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Handedness : Re: Handedness Server Time
7 Aug 2024 03:17:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Handedness  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 4 Dec 2001 07:38:51
Message: <3C0CC3FF.7417E63B@gmx.de>
"Timothy R. Cook" wrote:
> 
> I still don't quite get why math (and hence POV) 3D coords use
> left-hand rule; apart from most people being right-handed, CAD
> programs use right-hand, being based on architectural design which
> draws a floorplan along the XY plane with Z being the elevation,
> which is what you get when you draw a floorplan on a standard
> cartesian grid with 0,0 being the origin in the lower-left.
> 

It's no problem at all to do right-handed geometry in POV, just have a
look at what Moray generates for example.

Christoph

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