Here are a few questions, there are no right answers (except for the one with a right answer), and please choose the first answer that comes to you:
What are the primary colors?
A. Red, yellow, blue
B. Red, green, blue
You’re making a 3D model of some object. Which way is up in your world?
A. +Y
B. +Z
What color is chartreuse?
A. Green-yellowish
B. Red-orangish
You write out a 4×4 transform matrix to translate an object. You put the translation values:
A. in the bottom row
B. in the right column
All for now, my opinions and theories tomorrow (though feel free to comment before then).
Update: “answers” here.
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Well, Crytek uses Z-up, so that MUST be the right anwer :p
When people plot 2d graphs, you’ll always see it plotted against X and Y. X is always known as “Across” and Y as “Up”, so extending upon this concept with another dimension (Z), this should be Depth? no? …. seeing as “Up” and “Across” are already taken. I think working in 2d where Y is Up and 3d where Z is up just confuses things. I guess this all depends on your perspective though, i.e. are your viewing that graph as say a painting on the wall, or the carpet on the floor. In whixh case the opposite would apply. Oh cruel world ! stop confusing me !
I kinda think the same thing for the last question. Why have 2 different standards thats essentially lead to the same result just with different looking calculations? It just confuses matters when it needn’t.
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For me it’s
1. RGB
2. +Y
3. C (== I’ve never even heard of chartreuse!)
4. A -
It used to be RYB from K through 12 in art class, then when I started doing computer graphics it was RGB, and for the longest time I didn’t know why it changed until wikipedia taught me the difference between subtractive and additive color wheels.
It used to be +Y was up back in school while I was learning to program, all the student and teachers had this unspoken agreement that that was the de facto. When I got a job, it was Z+, and 4 years later I’m still not used to it.
Greenish-Yellowish.
Right Column – just because it’s easier for me the visualize the matrix in column form.
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1. RGB – I’ve always been around computers, I suppose
2. +Y – Though I can see wanting to use Z+, especially when dealing with 3D textures
3. A – Never knew there was an red-orangish version
4. A – Just been preferential to row major matrices all my life -
A, A, A, A!
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Magenta, yellow, cyan is for painters, and RGB is better.
Am I making the model, the world, or both? …. OK +Y
Green-yellowish… no contest
In the right column -
For no. 4, obviously I’d put them in the bottom row, and when that didn’t work I’d try the right column
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There is a green and a yellow Chartreuse, but no way it can be orange ! It is made a few kilometers away from Grenoble
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1. RGB. I can’t think of a reason to consider RYB.
2. I think of +Y as going up. It’s annoying though, since I think of pixel coordinates having +Y going down.
3. Isn’t chartreuse a wine made in France?
4. I’ve written it both ways. In recent years, I prefer to think of points as column vectors, which means it is most natural to place them in the last column. I believe that I’ve written raytracers with both conventions though. -
A,A,A,A
Question 2 could go either way though…. since alot of artwork is authored Z up. I prefer LHS, so Y up seems more sane.
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1. A (RYB) – unless talking specifically about CG
2. A (+Y)
3. ? – Never heard that word to describe a colour
4. B (right column) -
A (although i’m a game developer)
B
A
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1) Definitely RGB.
2) +Y… Z is for depth, hence Z-buffering.
3) Green-yellow… had no idea that there were other colors with that name.
4) Right column. -
I know it’s too late but here are my answers anyway:
* A (RGB) of course.
* Usually A (+Y) as it’s assumed by default in DirectX/OpenGL, although I sometimes use +Z when doing outdoor terrain rendering.
* ?? My English is not so good, sorry.
* A because I use DirectX. And I believe it’s generally more intuitive to transform vec2 = vec1 * matrix than vec2 = matrix * vec1
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We spent our first 5 years in the industry doing 2D RTS games, so it was only natural, when starting our 3D engine, to keep “the action” in the XY plane, and make +Z “up”
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