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From: Warp
Date: 9 Aug 2010 09:43:27
Message: <4c6005ff@news.povray.org>

davidafisher <dav### [at] coppernet> wrote:
> But this is where I'm missing something. Wouldn't both these actions, the matrix
> shearing and the rotate with scaling, result in a parallelogram and not a
> rhomboid?

  A rhomboid is a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal
lengths. A parallelogram with sides of equal length is a rhombus. The
transformation can be used to get either one.

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                                                          - Warp

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