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From: jmhannan@cix.co.uk (Jeff Hannan)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: Problem with positioning
Date: 24 May 1998 20:07:37 GMT
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> Joshua Meeds wrote:
>
> > Actually, +X is to the right, as shown below:
>
> X+ / X- : left/right  is dependant on how you set your view parameters.
> To flip X , look at the world from the opposite Z....
>
> Craig.
>

But if you look from the opposite Z, then things along the Z axis
are reversed as well.

Changing the sign of one of the axes will change the 'handedness'
of the co-ordinate system, and that makes a big difference to
how things are displayed.

Jeff