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From: cs161agc@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 3D Rotations/Instancing
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Date: 4 Feb 89 05:37:01 GMT
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  Since I am specifying rotations as angles (yaw,roll,pitch) wouldn't
it be fastest and simplest to rotate the coordinate system and then
solve for the new angles? Arcsin could be tabled and no square roots
will have to be calculated.  Can it be done, math whizzes? 


  Thanks for the suggestions,

  John Schultz