On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:50:41PM +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >Of course, it's over thirty since I did this stuff, but
> >it flashed back to me.  Hopefully correctly, but you
> >never know!  :-)  As for the matrix calculations, you're
> >on your own - I haven't done those since I was 11...
> 
> and he I am 5 times as many years later attempting it ...
> 
> The maths modelling course I am doing at the moment would suggest that doing
> it in a matrix is probably the "best" way.

Sounds like it. Doing the code to rotate x,y,z co-ordinates for the
3d-display part of the project was much easier once I fully understood
how to manipulate matrixes to do it. Multiplying by matrixes is just so
*nice* a way to do it.

What's the maths modelling course you are doing?

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