On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:43:47 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
>In any case, once you have the matrix, it *might* be possible to
>convert it to a triple of scale/rotate/translate matrices by matrix
>division (inverse multiplication, that is). How, I don't know, but
>I'll think about it tomorrow, when I've had some sleep.

Provided you know it came from a given sequence of scale/rotate/translate
operations, the exact operations can indeed be recovered.  However, not
every matrix is of that type.

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