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Using Coordinate Transforms
Coordinate transformations have a wide range of applications in computer graphics. The basic idea is that child objects are drawn relative to a parent object rather than based on the world coordinates. For example, an arm always starts from the same location relative to the parent body. As the parent body moves and rotates, its…
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Learn Recursion by Creating Fractals
Fractals are patterns that appear similar at different scales, known as self-similarity. That is fractals display a similar structure when you zoom in or out on them. Fractal patterns appear everywhere in nature. If you zoom in on a tree, the branching of the twigs is similar to the branching of the tree. If you…