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From: clipka
Date: 9 Aug 2010 10:25:23
Message: <4c600fd3$1@news.povray.org>

Am 09.08.2010 14:36, schrieb davidafisher:
> 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) A rhomboid, in traditionally 2D geometry, /is/ a parallelogram.

(B) A rhomboid, in contemporary 3D geometry, aka parallelepiped, /is/ 
the 3D analogon to a parallelogram.

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