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## Hot answers tagged matrix

### Why are width and height divided by 2 in the perspective projection matrix?

Because $x_{proj}$ doesn't vary from $0 \to width$, it varies from $-\tfrac{width}{2} \to \tfrac{width}{2}$. What's important is not the width, but the minimum and maximum values of $x_{proj}$. ...
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### How to translate object to origin?

No, he's talking about subtracting the position of the cube from the vertex positions, so that your cube is positioned at the origin. If you positioned the cube at (10, 30, 15), you subtract that ...
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### Confusion about notation in a paper

The notation $\delta_{i,j}$ is the Kronecker delta, a notation commonly used in physics. It's defined as: $$\delta_{i,j} \equiv \begin{cases}1,&i=j\\0,&i\neq j\end{cases}$$ So, as you ...
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### Why does opengl use 4d matrices for everything?

So, A lot of folks would tell you that a 4x4 matrix is used so you can get a translation component rolled into your linear transformation. Meaning that with a 3x3 matrix you can only compute rotations,...
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### Why do we multiply vertex from left side in vertex shader with matrices?

There is no 100% consensus on what order matrix multiplication should model things, worse the industry is split along this. Some sources use row major and some sources use column major matrices. Great ...
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### What does it *mean* to scale in an arbitrary direction?

When you scale along the X-axis, the X-coordinate (parallel to the axis) gets stretched, while the Y-coordinate (perpendicular to the axis) remains the same. You can think of scaling along an ...
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### Animating a smooth linear transformation

As a general rule, you cannot interpolate transformation matrices. In stead, you decompose them into their individual values, then interpolate those and recompose. The Möbius transformation as ...
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### Solving a problem from *Foundations of Computer Graphics*:

Let me try to make my comment into a complete answer. The general idea is to build a linear system using those 6 point pairs and solve for the desired 12 unknowns. You may find this paper[1] useful ...
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### Graphics Pipeline: Viewspace & Back face culling incorrectly

I (believe) I've solved this (even if it has taken 2 days). My problem was essentially I wanted to take the dot product of the face normal, and line-of-sight vector like below And determine the angle ...
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### Render with camera perspective off-center

Yes, you can use an off-axis projection matrix. This is what I use in my code (note: I shift the centre upwards, not left as you do in your example.) ...
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### How is that possible that matrices can be thought as coordinate systems?

If you have a 3x3 matrix representing some transformation, you will actually have the X,Y,Z vectors of that transformation in the rows or columns (depending on if it's a row major or column major ...
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### 3D rotation matrix around vector

There is a direct formula for the rotation matrix for an arbitrary axis and angle. Given a unit vector $a = (a_x, a_y, a_z)$ and angle $\theta$, the matrix can be constructed as follows (derivation ...
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### Why do we multiply vertex from left side in vertex shader with matrices?

OpenGL uses column-major matrices. For example, the translation values will be in the last row rather than the last column of the matrix. For example when loading matrices into uniforms in glsl, the <...
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### why is translating in 3D space the same as shearing in 4D space?

In a linear transformation system, your origin is always a fixed point, since 0*anything = 0. So imagine you have a cinema screen, and the origin is at the centre of the screen. Using linear ...
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### Why does opengl use 4d matrices for everything?

The bottom row allows you to create perspective foreshortening. That is, it makes lines that are getting further away appear to converge. When arranged this way, we call this a perspective projection ...
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