"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> What is the concept of 'scaling a point'? Does it just mean that the chosen
> point in space, by being scaled, then moves 'up and away' from the origin? (like
> scale would do to any point on an *object* if it were not at the origin to begin
> with.) If so, then I *think* I understand what happens to 'the point' at
> <4,3,7>--the vector is the new 3D position of that point--a single point--after
> it's rotated and 'scaled' from it's original <4,3,7> position.

Remeber, all transforms are relative to the origin.  So scaling a point would
move it away from the orgin proportional to its distance and the scale.  If it
is at the origin, it basically has no effect.




-tgq

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