.TH translate  3 "R1c" "Silicon Graphics"
.SH NAME
.I translate
- translate graphical primitives
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.TP \w'FORTRAN\ \ \ 'u
C
.B "translate(x, y, z) "
.B "Coord x, y, z;"
.IP 
.TP \w'FORTRAN\ \ \ 'u
FORTRAN
.B "subroutine transl(x, y, z)"
.B "real x, y, z"
.IP 
.TP \w'FORTRAN\ \ \ 'u
Pascal
.B "procedure translate(x, y, z: Coord);"
.sp
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Translate
places the object space origin at a given world coordinate point.
\f2Translate\fP is a modeling command,
and changes the current transformation
matrix.  All objects drawn after the \f2translate\f1 command is 
executed will be translated.  Use \f2pushmatrix\f1 and \f2popmatrix\f1
to limit the scope of the translation.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.I popmatrix, pushmatrix, rotate, scale