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EdCat

What is the magic trick?

keenan

@EdCat Every affine transformation is a linear transformation in one dimension higher (via homogeneous coordinates). This leads to a compact representation of affine transformations in 3D where one can simply keep track of a product of matrices to concatenate spatial transformations. (Otherwise, you’d have to store a long list of matrix/vector pairs...)