Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> sphere.translate[0]="<5,0,0>"

> I think it's a bad idea to allow changing individual transformation 
> statements after the object has been created.

  There's no such a thing as a "translate" element in a sphere (or in
any other object for that matter). Thus it would make no sense to have
such an element in the sphere object of the new SDL either.

  What should exist is a *function* (member or not) which applies the
translation to the sphere (which is a different thing). Calling this
function will, naturally apply the subsequent translations properly
(as well as other transformations).

  (In general all transformations are internally collected into a
4x4 transformation matrix, except when the transformation can be
optimized away by eg. transforming the center point of the sphere
only. However, there exists no "translate" member variable in the
sphere object or any other object.)

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                                                          - Warp

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