AffineTransform

[colin shuker]

I'm using an AffineTransform for some 3D stuff, but this line throws an exception:

return new AffineTransform(0.0f,-0.029995500202495f,0.0f,0.999550033748988f,130.0f,288.78218134185965f);

I can't see why, I thought I could use any floats as parameters?
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

Does it throw any particular exception? It would be helpful for us to know.

[Peter Chase]

Note that those constants have far more precision in them than a float can represent. You only get about 7 decimal digits in a float.

If you really need all that precision (unlikely?), then use double.

[colin shuker]

Here is an output of the exception.
That is when I used this line...
return new AffineTransform(0.0f,-0.02999f,0.0f,0.99955f,130.0f,288.78218f);
I could obviously catch it, but thats like sweeping up rubbish under the carpet, and pretending its not there, I would rather know why I get an exception.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks


java.awt.image.ImagingOpException: Unable to invert transform AffineTransform[[0.0, 0.0, 130.0], [-0.029990000650287, 0.999549984931946, 288.78216552734375]]
at java.awt.image.AffineTransformOp.validateTransform(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.image.AffineTransformOp.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.transformImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.drawToBufImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.DrawImage.copyImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.pipe.ValidatePipe.copyImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(Unknown Source)
at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(Unknown Source)
at rubik.Drawer.drawImage(Drawer.java:275)

[Paul Clapham]

Well, the numbers you put into your AffineTransform result in a transformation that maps the entire plane into a single line. You can see this because its determinant is zero. This can't be inverted as it isn't a one-to-one mapping. Evidently whatever you were trying to do has a problem with degenerate transformations.

Read the documentation for AffineTransform, especially the getDeterminant() method, for more information.

[colin shuker]

Excellent, I was thinking it was something like that.
Didn't really consider the determinant, but that explains why it says
"Unable to invert transform..."
Because you can't invert a matrix that has a zero determinant.

I'm basically building a rubiks cube, and it when it loads up,
it shows the cube from the front, but also tries to draw 2 of the side
faces, which are really just lines, hence the zero determinant,

I think I can fix it now, thanks