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Mr.Willner
Mr.Willner

Reputation: 21

What is stored in the modelview matrix?

I have been trying to learn more about matrices in opengl; right now I'm stuck trying to understand where things are stored inside the modelview matrix. (location,scaling,rotations etc) This is obviously very important as understanding matrices is one of the first steps to fully understand modern opengl.

I have been trying to find some good articles, and I've currently found 2: (1,2)

However, I stil don't understand where the values are stored; any help is very appreciated (links, pinpointers etc)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 496

Answers (1)

Steeve
Steeve

Reputation: 1341

Here is a reference of how different (affine) transformation matrices are constructed:

Identity:

1 0 0 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 1

Translate (x, y ,z):

1 0 0 x
0 1 0 y
0 0 1 z
0 0 0 1

Scale (sx, sy, sz):

sx  0  0  0
 0 sy  0  0
 0  0 sz  0
 0  0  0  1

Rotate along x axis (by angle t):

 1  0       0      0
 0 cos(t) -sin(t)  0
 0 sin(t)  cos(t)  0
 0  0       0      1

Rotate along y axis (by angle t):

cos(t)  0 sin(t)  0
 0      1   0     0
-sin(t) 0 cos(t)  0
 0      0   0     1

Rotate along z axis (by angle t):

cos(t) -sin(t)  0   0
sin(t)  cos(t)  0   0
 0       0      1   0
 0       0      0   1

Upvotes: 2

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