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From: Micha Riser
Date: 11 Jun 2003 15:55:19
Message: <3ee78926@news.povray.org>

ABX wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:48:31 +0200, sascha
> 
> It says correct IMO. Imagine I have baloon. I can do following
> transformations: a) rotate it turning around
> b) translate it by moving
> c) scale it with blowing
> but I can't matrix it becouse there is no transformation 'matrix' in
> reality, though matematically I can describe this transformations with
> matix and that's what is written in next sentence "A transformation matrix
> may also be used to specify complex transformations directly." :-)

Maybe 
d) an arbitrary *affine transformation* specified by a matrix
would be the correct terminology.

- Micha


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