Mesh Transforms
Long-tail route · geometry
Use this when transforms should feel like direct manipulation instead of matrix trivia.
Interactive affine transform lab for rotation, scaling, shear order, and grid deformation.
At a glance
Live interactive
The maintained version lives at the route linked here, with this garden note keeping the embed and editorial framing.
Best companion
Pair it with [[Curves-and-Surfaces]] when you want the richer shape-construction follow-up after the transform warm-up.
Time and level
About 8 to 12 minutes. Beginner friendly. A compact geometry route that works well before the larger modeling explainers.
Reading path
- Open the live interactive: https://kohnnn.github.io/interactive-explanation/mesh-transforms/
- Continue through Curves-and-Surfaces or Drawing-Bezier-Curves when you want the next geometry step
- Move through the local archive via Interactive or Visual Notes