Three dimensional transformations include translations, scaling, rotations, and reflections. Translations move an object through addition of translation vectors in the x, y, and z directions. Scaling changes the size of an object using scaling factors for the x, y, and z axes. Rotations turn an object around an axis by some angle, requiring both an axis of rotation and angle of rotation. Reflections produce a mirror image of an object across a plane. Shearing can distort an object by changing its shape along an axis. These transformations are represented by matrices to manipulate 3D coordinate points.