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Calculate the external product of two three-dimensional vectors
Source position: matrix.pp line 402
operator operator ><(Tvector3_single, Tvector3_single): Tvector3_single( |
const x: Tvector3_single; |
const y: Tvector3_single |
This operator returns the external product of two three dimensional vector. It is a vector orthonormal to the two multiplied vectors. The length of that vector is equal to the surface area of a parallelogram with the two vectors as sides.
The external product is often used to get a vector orthonormal to two other vectors, but of a predefined length. In order to do so, the result vector from the external product, is divided by its length, and then multiplied by the desired size.
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