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From: Paul Brants
Date: 25 Jun 2001 11:35:41
Message: <3b375a4d$1@news.povray.org>
"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> schreef in bericht
news:3B374033.F7C580F0@inapg.inra.fr...
> Warp wrote:
>
> > Paul Brants <pbr### [at] pandorabe> wrote:
> > : What am I doing wrong??
> >
> >   Calculating the inverse of a matrix is a bit more complicated. You
should
> > find info in the net about that.
>
> Here for instance (see Gauss-Jordan elimination).
> http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/bookcpdf.html
> This site is really helpful, BTW.
>
> G.
>
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Thanks for the reference, but since Mat is a rotation matrix, it should be
orthogonal, which  means that : its transpose = its inverse
or as you can check out :
 transpose of the matrix * the matrix itself = identity matrix

Paul


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