Tutorial

This tutorial will guide you through using lintrans for teaching, or to aid in your own learning.

If you don’t already have lintrans downloaded, please download the latest version and make sure you’re reading the latest version of this tutorial.

You can get back to this tutorial at any point by clicking Help along the top of the app, and then Tutorial, or by pressing F1 on your keyboard.

There are several sections and I would highly recommend reading them in order.

Contents:

• Anatomy of the app
• Defining matrices
  • Numerically
  • Visually
  • As an expression
  • Viewing defined matrices
• Expression syntax
  • Composition
  • Examples
  • Anonymous matrices
• Visualizing transformations
  • Render
  • Animate
    • Transitive
    • Applicative
  • Using input and output vectors
  • Defining custom polygons
• Configuring display settings
  • Basic stuff
  • Animations
    • Smoothen determinant
    • Applicative animation
    • Animation timings
  • Matrix info
    • Determinant parallelogram
    • Eigenvectors and eigenlines
  • Polygons
  • Input/output vectors
• Configuring global settings
  • Distances
  • Updating
• Saving and loading sessions
  • Usefulness in teaching
  • Saving
  • Loading
• Reporting bugs and suggesting features