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It's not obvious to me why this is so important to programmers. Can someone explain?

• gte910h 16y ago
  You use this to project and move objects to different orientations, shapes and sizes. So if you're doing animation, UI programming or graphics, it's very useful. If you're doing analysis, you can use SVD to isolate independent forces, and to quantify the relationships of dependent forces. Some compressions/specification techniques rely on it. Basically, it's very important to know how to do for some, vaguely informative for others, and very important for yet another group.
  • rabidsnail 16y ago
    For UI programming and animation transformation matrices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_matrix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_matrix) (plus some simple calculus) are really all you need.
    • gte910h 16y ago
      Depends on what part of the animations you're doing. SVD is a technique you'll do on Transformation matrices to find certain things out. I'm not saying the OP's contention that SVD is fantastically useful is that true. I am saying understanding matrix math down to the point of SVD and being able to do it when you spend much of your day doing transforms is useful for animation beyond setting EaseInOut and going about your day.