The model, view and projection matrices are three separate matrices. Model maps from an object’s local coordinate space into world space, view from world space to camera space, projection from camera to screen. If you compose all three, you can use the one result to map all the way from object space to screen space, … Read more
Gimbal lock is one reason, although as you say it is only a problem with Euler angles and is easily solvable. Euler angles are still used when memory is a concern as you only need to store 3 numbers. For quaternions versus a 3×3 rotation matrix, the quaternion has the advantage in size (4 scalars … Read more
You can use matplotlib for this. matplotlib has a mplot3d module that will do exactly what you want. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import random fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12, 12)) ax = fig.add_subplot(projection=’3d’) sequence_containing_x_vals = list(range(0, 100)) sequence_containing_y_vals = list(range(0, 100)) sequence_containing_z_vals = list(range(0, 100)) random.shuffle(sequence_containing_x_vals) random.shuffle(sequence_containing_y_vals) random.shuffle(sequence_containing_z_vals) ax.scatter(sequence_containing_x_vals, sequence_containing_y_vals, sequence_containing_z_vals) plt.show() The code above generates a … Read more
The site you mentioned is very good, but I think the best one I have found is by INsanityDesign. It is a port of the great OpenGL nehe tutorials. This is a great place to start, it gives you source at different levels that you can play with and change to see what different parts … Read more