Game Physics Cookbook

Transpose

The transpose of matrix M, written as is a matrix in which every element i, j equals the element j, i of the original matrix. The transpose of a matrix can be acquired by reflecting the matrix over its main diagonal, writing the rows of M as the columns of , or by writing the columns of M as the rows of . We can express the transpose for each component of a matrix with the following equation:

The transpose operation replaces the rows of a ...