Practise Problems: Transformations Part 1

1. Start with a cube centered at the origin and aligned with the coordinate
axes. Find a rotation matrix that will rotate the cube first 45around y-axis
and then 45around z-axis.
2. Consider the operation of double shearing, that is, shearing in the x-axis
direction followed by shearing in the y-axis direction or vice versa.
a. Is double shearing commutative? Show algebraically, using
homogenous coordinates, that your answer is correct.
b. Can double shearing be carried out simultaneously, that is, be
represented by a single matrix? Attempt to derive the transformation
matrix and show that this is or not possible.
3. Explain the effect of the following matrices as related to transformation.
a.

1 0 0 0
0 0 3 4
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 1

b.

1 0 0 0
0 50 cos 0 50 sin
0 0 1 0
0 50 sin 0 50 cos

c.

1 0 0 0
0 1 0 0
1 0 1 0
1 0 0 1

4. A square as shown in (a) is converted to a parallelogram as in (b) using
composite transformation matrix M. Determine such matrix. Explain your
work.
(0,1)
(1.1)
(0,0)
(1,0)
(0,0)
(2,2)
(0.5,1.5)
(1.5,0.5)
(a)
(b)