RE: [Algorithms] Extracting scale from matrix

[Brown, G. <Br...@ct...>]

> An implementation can be found in the MAX SDK, in Decomp.cpp 
> (this is the
> source code for the famous decomp_affine method of the MAX SDK).
> Unfortunately the code is really ugly, and I think it's even 
> not included in
> the standard SDK (which only contains headers IIRC).

There is a bug in this code that will not handle left hand matrices (I
think).  There is a new source posted somewhere in the MAX help file.  I can
dig it up if anyone needs it.