Re: comments on Matrix

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>wrote:

> The following points don't seem to have been discussed yet:
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> 2013/3/19 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com>
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>> 3. Many concepts are not defined (and their mathematical names aren't
>> that specific).
>> Examples "the skew angle in degrees",
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This matches the CSS transforms spec:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-transforms/#two-d-transform-functions
Maybe we should make that more clear


> the "perspective" vector, the order of coefficients in a quaternion (is
>> the unit quaternion 1,0,0,0 or 0,0,0,1 in your convention?)
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Those have been removed.
They might come back in the pseudo code if we want to add matrix
interpolation.


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>> 4. Some method names are verbs, yet they do not perform an action on
>> their object. Example: translate(). I would call that translated(), I
>> suppose.
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'translate' can't change because it needs to be compatible with SVG.
As Tab suggest, I'd like to hear what JS people think about this.

What I *think* is open for now:
- clear up skewing, etc by referring to CSS transforms
- look into past tense for method names
- look into adding a matrix interpolation call
- look into matrix decomposition call
- look into an 'IsInvertible' call that determines if the matrix is
reasonably invertible

We can tackle these as separate discussions.