Why “transformations” is being discussed
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You don't need to use homogeneous coordinates to represent a series of linear transformations as a single matrix. That's just basic linear algebra: any series of linear transfor…
by tmoertel · Sep 22, 2026
Yes. Loops that manipulate data are extremely common. Combining memory accesses and increasing cache locality are extremely beneficial to performance. Transformations that rewri…
by zbentley · Sep 22, 2026
ive been thinking -- if i have a 3x3 matrix [1 0 q; 0 1 r; 0 0 1], when dotted with x, those rows are planes in 3d with normals n1=(1 0 q), n2=(0 1 r) and n3=(0 0 1). plane 3 is…
by globalnode · Sep 22, 2026
Once upon a time the word processor was invented, and it made it so much easier to arrange your words on paper. iIf bits were wrong, you could just delete them, or copy and past…
by Kim_Bruning · Sep 21, 2026
There are some absolutely insane ideas in the decomp space about how copyright works. You took a copyrighted work, did some lossless mathematical transformations on it, and have…
by throwaway888777 · Sep 21, 2026
It's not just the agent understanding the API, it's locking down the access they have. If I want to give access to an internal service in specific ways that the API doesn't lock…
by AndrewDucker · Sep 20, 2026
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