The identity matrix is a matrix of 1's for all diagonal elements and zeros for the rest. A matrix multiplied by the identity matrix remains unchanged.
| m11 m12 m13 m14 | | 1 0 0 0 |
| m21 m22 m23 m24 | = | 0 1 0 0 | | m31 m32 m33 m34 | | 0 0 1 0 | | m41 m42 m43 m44 | | 0 0 0 1 |
mat_identity(my_matix);