POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Inverse Transformations patch : Re: Inverse Transformations patch Server Time
2 Sep 2024 06:19:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Inverse Transformations patch  
From: Ken
Date: 24 Apr 2000 21:26:00
Message: <3904F3D5.CF178365@pacbell.net>
Chris Huff wrote:

> > What purpose does an inverse tranformation serve (what does it do and
> > why do we need it) ?
> 
> Transform Trans changes pointA into another pointB. If the inverse of
> Trans is applied to pointB, you get pointA back. It is just the reverse
> of an ordinary transformation.

So if I had an object at <-1,0,-1> the inverse tranformation would now
locate the object to <1,0,1> ?

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