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Scale, Rotation, Translation

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Scale, Rotation, Translation
« on: September 03, 2009, 17:56:51 »

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Offline Rene

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Re: Scale, Rotation, Translation
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 12:08:03 »
That's quite a broad subject, and it's better to get yourself a book than using online tutorials IMHO. Are you familiar with the basics of Vector/Matrix algebra?

Oh and BTW, it might be better to use quaternions for rotations instead of matrices, they're usually faster to compute and require only four floats storage.
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Offline tomb

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Re: Scale, Rotation, Translation
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 15:13:02 »
Use an existing library. No need to code that yourself. Java3D has vecmath library that you can use. It can be downloaded from here: https://java3d.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html . There is also third party version of the api.