AAMS3673 MATHEMATICS FOR GAMES TECHNOLOGY II

Tutorial 1 – Two Dimensional Transformations

Q1. Find the Cartesian coordinate for the following homogeneous vectors.
(a)  16 7 5  (b)   3 6 0.2  (c)  72  16  8 

Q2. Find the matrix that shifts the point (6, 3) to the point (4, 19). Hence, find the image of the
point Q (7, 20) under this transformation.

Q3. Transform the triangle with vertices A(4, 2) , B(4, 4) and C (2, 4) by applying the matrices
 2 0 0  0.5 0 0   0.5 0 0 
     
(a)  0 2 0 (b)  0 3 0 (c)  0 0.5 0 
0 0 1  0 0 1  0 0 1 
    
For each transformation, sketch the result in a graph.

Q4. Write the matrix that causes a rotation through an angle of 45o CW about the origin. Use this
matrix to transform the point P(6, 1) .

Q5. Write the matrix that rotates the point A(5, 10) to A* (2, 11) .

Q6. Reflect the triangle whose vertices are A(6, 7) , B(1,  7) and C (11, 6) about the
(a) x -axis (b) y -axis (c) line y  x (d) line y   x

Q7. Illustrate the effects of shearing transformation on the triangle whose vertices are A(0, 0) ,
B(2, 0) and C (1, 1) .
(a) Shearing in the x -direction with shear factor 3.
(b) Shearing in the y -direction with shear factor 1.
(c) Shearing in both x and y directions with shear factor 3 and 1 respectively.