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4 Aug 2024 16:07:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray Quiz for Intermediate Users  
From: Warp
Date: 6 Jun 2003 13:23:28
Message: <3ee0ce10@news.povray.org>
Rune <run### [at] runevisioncom> wrote:
> Couldn't it be tested for a transform block if it could be optimized to
> a rotation, a translation and a uniform scaling? Shouldn't it be enough
> to test if the transformation matrix is an orthogonal one? And if it is,
> isn't it always possible to do the desired optimization?

  I suppose so, and I suppose that no-one bothered when implementing the
transform block code... :)

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