• Widowmaker_Best_Girl@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s what I don’t get. Why would they make Z up when in algebra, Y is up. It’s all based on math, shouldn’t we keep consistent on that?

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      1 year ago

      Because the z axis is represented as an extension of the xy-plane, coming out of the paper essentially, so we represent it as up