Re: Solve & RotationMatrix
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- Subject: [mg76002] Re: Solve & RotationMatrix
- From: Mathieu G <ellocomateo at free.fr>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 05:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
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CKWong.P at gmail.com a =E9crit : > Obviously, you need to provide the function RotationMatrix[ angle, > axisVector ] for the algorithm to work. > > On the other hand, matrices for rotations about the Cartesian axes, > i.e., RotX,RotY, & RotZ, can be written done directly. Why not do so? > > Hi, Thank you for your reply. I am not interested in a simple rotation matrix around an axis, but in finding the angles corresponding to a 3D rotation matrix. I compute VectN which is the vector normal to my surface, and I am interested in getting the rotation parameters that bring VectY to VectN. Regards, Mathieu