8USING MATRICES FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”—Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”
In math class, students are taught how to add, subtract, and multiply matrices without ever learning how they’re really used. This is too bad because matrices allow us to easily group together large collections of items and simulate coordinates of an object from multiple perspectives, making them useful in machine learning and absolutely crucial to 2D and 3D graphics. In other words, without matrices, there would be no video games!
To understand how matrices are useful for creating graphics, you first need to understand ...
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