{"id":806,"date":"2007-11-18T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T09:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2007-11-18T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T09:26:49","slug":"matrices-and-flash-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/matrices-and-flash-games-806","title":{"rendered":"Matrices and Flash games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matrices are useful whenever we need to transform one geometric shape into something else.<\/p>\n<p>This excellent tutorial from senocular.com has some good example Flash files showing how the Flash matrix transform matrix works:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senocular.com\/flash\/tutorials\/transformmatrix\/\">Understanding the Transformation Matrix in Flash 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tutorial includes matrix multiplication and the inverse of a matrix and has some applications at the end. Here's a screen shot from the tutorial:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/11\/matrix.gif' alt='matrix transformation' \/><\/p>\n<p>Matrices are also useful for telling robots what to do (the transformations in this case are in 3D).<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/matrices-and-flash-games-806#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting tutorial on how matrices are used in Flash animations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}