POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ray tracers and transformations : Re: Ray tracers and transformations Server Time
10 Oct 2024 17:21:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ray tracers and transformations  
From: Invisible
Date: 14 Mar 2008 04:30:47
Message: <47da45c7$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   That's the reason why you can't, for example, scale something by 0.
> Inverting that matrix would result in a division by 0.

Presumably it would also result in an invisible object too though. ;-)

Does POV-Ray actually apply all the matricies and invert only the final 
one? Or does it construct them in inverted form in the first place?

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