kurtz le pirate <kur### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
>  | a b c |     < a, b, c,            < a, d, g,
>  | d e f | -->   d, e, f,  -- or -->   b, e, h,
>  | g h i |       g, h, i,              c, f, i,
>                  0, 0, 0 >             0, 0, 0,>
>

Yes, but the orginal matrix is in Cartesian coordinates [x, y, z].

The POV Ray matrix operates on its own [x,y,z] coordinates which would be
equivalent to the Cartesian [y, z, -x].

Thus, the matrix needs to be changed to:

< d , g, -a,
  e,  h, -b,
  f,  i, -c,
  0,  0,  0 >

So far this seems to work.

Another part of my problem was that I was also using POV Ray scaling and
translate commands which seem to really mess up the rotations.

From now on I will scale and translate with an external script and just use POV
Ray to rotate.  I can also translate with the POV Ray rotation matrix without
distortion because it is a part of the transformation.

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