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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: BafflinTransform
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:35:47 -0700
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:22:30 -0700 (PDT), bob smith
<bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote:

[snip]

>It seems like when I want to "tack on" an operation, it is actually a preConcatenate.
>
>This is counterintuitive to me.
>
>Also, when you are just doing commutative operations, like just translation, it doesn't matter whether you preConcatenate or concatenate.

     Matrix multiplication is NOT commutative.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko