[ODE] ODE internals: row-major or column-major?

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

There's also the question of row vectors vs column vectors.

See http://www.mindcontrol.org/~hplus/graphics/matrix-layout.html

Cheers,

             / h+


Mauro G. Todeschini wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I'm looking at ode code and I have some question that I haven't been
> able to solve googling. So I need your help :)
> I've read that ode stores matrixes in memory in row-major style (which
> is opposite to OpenGL column major style). I've also read that row-major
> means that if I have a (rotation) matrix like this (3 rows, 4 columns):
> [m11 m12 m13 m14]
> [m21 m22 m23 m24]
> [m31 m32 m33 m34]
> ... It get stored in an array like this:
> [a0]=m11 -
> [a1]=m12 First row
> [a2]=m13
> [a3]=m14 -
> [a4]=m21 -
> [a5]=m22 Second Row
> [a6]=m23
> [a7]=m24 -
> [a8]=m31  -
> [a9]=m32  Third Row
> [a10]=m33
> [a11]=m34 -
> Ok, It seemed clear but... =:-o
> I looked at the code of the function dRFromEulerAngles (file
> rotation.cpp) and to me It seems that the rotation matrix get stored in
> column-major style.
> The rotation matrix of the composition of a X rotation followed by a Y
> rotation followed by a Z rotation in fact shold have the form shown at
> the end of this page:
> http://planning.cs.uiuc.edu/node102.html
> Anybody can clarify? Is ODE row or column major?
> There is something I really cannot catch...
>
> Thanks and Bye
>
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