March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
26h 18m
English
We start our task of mapping into device coordinates by adding a fourth component to our three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates, with a value of 1.0, to make homogeneous coordinates. These coordinates are then ready to be multiplied by one or more 4 × 4 matrices that rotate, scale, translate, and apply perspective. Examples of how to use each of these transforms are given below. The summary is that each of these transformations can be made through multiplication by a 4 × 4 matrix, and a series of such transformations can be composed into a single 4 × 4 matrix, once, that can then be used on multiple vertices.
Translating an object takes advantage of the fourth component we just added to our model ...
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