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Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad
Date: 
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:33:22 GMT
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Hi Don,

now it's getting interesting ...

"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:HzrwBF.9t2@lugnet.com...
<SNIP>
Line type 1's format is:

Line Format:
    1 colour x y z a b c d e f g h i part.dat

Fields a through i are orientation & scaling parameters, which can be
used in 'standard' 3D transformation matrices. Fields x, y and z also
fit into this matrix:

    | a d g 0 |
    | b e h 0 |
    | c f i 0 |
    | x y z 1 |

I'm actually reading it in as
| a b c |
| d e f |
| g h i |

and that is also how I'm writing my matrixes of meta commands ....
if that is wrong, why do I not have any problem when reading files?!?!?!? -
I'm a bit confused now ...

<SNIP>
Here's what MLCAD.INI says:

Please read also the specification of MLCad extensions in the developer
section of my web-pages. It explains nearly everything. - except the read
order shown above.

Regards,
   Michael



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  Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
(...) Yes, that looks right. The other thing that messes me up with LDRAW matrices is the row, column ordering. The ordering in LDRAW files is not what I would have chosen, so I always have to look it up. From the old FAQ: (URL) type 1's format is: (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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