POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ray tracers and transformations : Re: Ray tracers and transformations Server Time
10 Oct 2024 23:18:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ray tracers and transformations  
From: Invisible
Date: 14 Mar 2008 07:52:16
Message: <47da7500$1@news.povray.org>
>> Presumably it would also result in an invisible object too though. ;-)
> 
>   Not if you scale by 0 on only one axis.

Ah, good point...

>> 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?
> 
>   IIRC it calculates the inverted matrices when parsing and uses them
> when rendering.

I thought that would be the case.

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