POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Transform help please : Re: Transform help please Server Time
4 Nov 2024 23:16:20 EST (-0500)
  Re: Transform help please  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 1 Sep 2003 00:27:04
Message: <cjameshuff-46883C.00270301092003@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3f52a123@news.povray.org>,


> you will have to undo these rotations in *reverse* order, i.e.
> 
>    rotate -Up.z*z
>    rotate -Up.y*y
>    rotate -Up.x*x

Or "transform {rotate Up inverse}". Besides being shorter, it says 
exactly what it's doing and is far less error-prone, especially when 
you're editing the code.

Even better would be to declare the transformation. That way, you only 
need to edit one bit of code to change it.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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