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- From: kurt@cashew.asd.sgi.com (Kurt Akeley)
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- Subject: Re: Row major or column major matrices? - SUMMARY POSTING
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:20:44 GMT
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- Eric Haines writes:
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- > There may be other systems in which
- > the translation elements are stored in locations 3,7, and 11, but this is a
- > separate computer language issue (can you say "FORTRAN"?).
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- The OpenGL API treats matrixes as single-dimension arrays of 16 elements,
- rather than 4x4 arrays of elements. Thus OpenGL codes written in FORTRAN
- and C use identical array indexing, and can share matrixes in an intuitive
- way.
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- -- Kurt Akeley kurt@sgi.com (415) 390-3612 M/S 7U-550
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