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thomthom / transformation-inspector

Inspect and manipulate transformations of SketchUp instances.
https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/1356b8f5-54c3-4df9-a6ed-28466ff41ede/transformation-inspector
MIT License
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Field tooltips #2

Open Eneroth3 opened 3 years ago

Eneroth3 commented 3 years ago

Currently there are hover tooltips on the diagonal fields explaining them as the X scale, Y scale and Z scale (and Wt, whatever that means).

I'm thinking it could help people understand matrices if the fields where labeled 'X component of X axis', 'Y component of X axis' and so on. This could help visualize how the matrix define a new coordinate system, how it can be used for shearing, and how rotation is really expressed as a combination of shearing and scaling.

For me the 3x3 part of the transformation matrix become much more intuitive when I started reading it as the unit axes for the coordinate system it defines.

thomthom commented 3 years ago

Are you referring to the extension as it is in the master branch or the more recent WIP in dev/column-major?

Eneroth3 commented 3 years ago

Oh, I just downloaded it from Extension Warehouse. I haven't kept up to date with any development here in GitHub.