> My point is not that hard to understand.

Have you done any serious graphics programming? Even at the OpenGL 1.x level? What you’re saying just doesn’t make sense.

Just because you’re rotating and translating things in 3-space doesn’t negate that you have a stack of transforms that relate a point in world space to one on screen space and you want to be able to project from one to the other.

Nor does it make it any easier when you need to think about how to stack transforms to achieve effects like rendering a mirror.

I honed a lot of useful practical skill with linear algebra trying to get graphics to do what I wanted. And I say this as someone who’s spent the bulk of my career using linear algebra in the context of quantum mechanics, physical simulation, and ML-adjacent areas.

> negate that you have a stack of transforms that relate a point in world space to one on screen space and you want to be able to project from one to the other.

no it doesn't "negate", it's all completely orthogonal (pun) or irrelevant. like for real just please take a look at

https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.12/nn.html

and tell me which operators you're imagining have any resemblance with typical graphics linear algebra.

like when you people make such claims do you really have anything concrete in mind or just hype?