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Re: rotation angles from rotation matrix

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  • Subject: [mg80157] Re: rotation angles from rotation matrix
  • From: sashap <pavlyk at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:54:31 -0400 (EDT)
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On Aug 13, 3:54 am, rob <josh2... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I gather all this is for V6; there is no RotationMatrix
> function available on my 5.1 system. (RotationMatrix3D is
> there though).

Yes, RotationMatrix is new in version 6.

>
> Either way it appears that using RotationMatrix3D to work
> with Euler angles doesn't work in the real world.

Rather, it does work in the real world, one just needs to properly
apply it.

Oleksandr Pavlyk
Wolfram Research



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