POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : More math fail : Re: More math fail Server Time
4 Sep 2024 13:22:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More math fail  
From: Warp
Date: 22 Jan 2010 04:35:51
Message: <4b597177@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Neeum Zawan wrote:

> > Oh dear. Use the determinant form - easiest to remember:
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_product#Matrix_notation

> ...except that then I'd have to somehow remember the correct way to do 
> matrix multiplication. (Something which I never get right with more than 
> 50% probability...)

  Then you just end up using left-handed coordinates for your cross product
rather than right-handed. In other words, it only affects the sign of the
result.

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                                                          - Warp


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