When drawing objects in OpenGL, it can be annoying that you do a translation, and then before drawing the next shape, you have to do a reverse translation to fix your positions. Well OpenGL being a state machine, has the ability to pop and push the current model view matrix, meaning you push on a duplicate of the current matrix before you do your translation, and then revert to the old matrix by pulling the new one off.push
When drawing objects in OpenGL, it can be annoying that you do a translation, and then before drawing the next shape, you have to do a reverse translation to fix your positions. Well OpenGL being a state machine, has the ability to pop and push the current model view matrix, meaning you push on a duplicate of the current matrix before you do your translation, and then revert to the old matrix by pulling the new one off.