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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In robotics I use right hand coordinates with z up. So a car is moving in the 2d xy plane and z is the optional third component. This makes sense to me. For some kind of painting on the screen I can understand why you use y as up. Then again, I know these as uv-coordinates.