This has me stumped.  In these two images, I would expect the greenish 
crewman in the water to be in the exact same position.
ttbo1392 crewman is an absolute vector
ttbo1393 crewman is relative to tugboat.

The scenario is, crewman is drifting in the bathtub and gets rescued by 
the Tug.  So his vector starts out absolute and the moment the rescue 
starts, he becomes part of the tugboat object.

TugVec =<700.50, 144.50, 215.50> Rot=<4.04, 155.00, 1.73>
CrewVec=<697.50, 143.92, 217.00>

So, CrewOnBoatVec=vrotate(CrewVec-TugVec, y*-TugRot.y)

which gives me
CrewOnBoatVec=<2.08, 0.00, -2.63>
close, but no cigar.
Ignore the y component. That gets handled special. It's the x,z that's 
the issue.

If I unwind it,
vrotate(CrewOnBoatVec, y*TugRot.y)+TugVec
I get back the original absolute CrewVec, but that just verifies the 
math works, but it's still wrong.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:

> I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I can't really see it either, but maybe just do a simple scene with spheres and
a for loop tracing out the rotation.

compare it to things like

CrewOnBoatVec=vrotate(TugVec-CrewVec, y*-TugRot.y)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and see if anything jumps out.

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Am 2/23/20 10:16 PM, also sprach Bald Eagle:
> Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> 
>> I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> I can't really see it either, but maybe just do a simple scene with spheres 
> ...
> and see if anything jumps out.
> 

Ugh.  What jumps out is ... I told a half truth.  When I perform the 
calcs in actual SDL it works as expected.  When I do it in my c++ 
library, that I ported from my Java library, that I ripped from the 
POV-Ray source (core/math/matrix.cpp), that I've used for years, I get 
the wrong answer.

Comparing the logic flow of my
void Vector::rotateDegrees(const Vector& rot){}
with POV-Ray's
void Compute_Rotation_Transform (TRANSFORM *transform, const Vector3d& 
vector)

I see a matrix multiplication difference (there are two different 
multiplies and I used one).

I can't believe I never saw this before.

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Am 2/24/20 5:05 PM, also sprach Dick Balaska:
> 
> I see a matrix multiplication difference (there are two different 
> multiplies and I used one).
> 
> I can't believe I never saw this before.
> 

This was cool.  I set a breakpoint in my SDL debugger just before the 
vrotate.  Once that hit, I set a breakpoint in the POV-Ray c++.
I then stepped through the vrotate while at the same time stepping 
through my library.  Lo, I got the exact same results.

I'm in agony.

When I first saw this phenomenon, I said "interesting, the vector looks 
correct, just the wrong length.  But I'm not doing any vlength work so 
that's just a coincidence."  Wrong!  I scaled the Tugboat by 0.7 so he'd 
fit in the tub better.  I need a drink.


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