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  2. Rotation formalisms in three dimensions - Wikipedia

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    The Rodrigues vector (sometimes called the Gibbs vector, with coordinates called Rodrigues parameters) [3] [4] can be expressed in terms of the axis and angle of the rotation as follows: = ^ ⁡ This representation is a higher-dimensional analog of the gnomonic projection , mapping unit quaternions from a 3-sphere onto the 3-dimensional pure ...

  3. Axis–angle representation - Wikipedia

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    The angle θ and axis unit vector e define a rotation, concisely represented by the rotation vector θe.. In mathematics, the axis–angle representation parameterizes a rotation in a three-dimensional Euclidean space by two quantities: a unit vector e indicating the direction of an axis of rotation, and an angle of rotation θ describing the magnitude and sense (e.g., clockwise) of the ...

  4. Rotation matrix - Wikipedia

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    To obtain exactly the same rotation (i.e. the same final coordinates of point P), the equivalent row vector must be post-multiplied by the transpose of R (i.e. wR T). Right- or left-handed coordinates The matrix and the vector can be represented with respect to a right-handed or left-handed coordinate system. Throughout the article, we assumed ...

  5. Rodrigues' rotation formula - Wikipedia

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    Vector geometry of Rodrigues' rotation formula, as well as the decomposition into parallel and perpendicular components. Let k be a unit vector defining a rotation axis, and let v be any vector to rotate about k by angle θ ( right hand rule , anticlockwise in the figure), producing the rotated vector v rot {\displaystyle \mathbb {v} _{\text ...

  6. Quaternions and spatial rotation - Wikipedia

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    The vector cross product, used to define the axis–angle representation, does confer an orientation ("handedness") to space: in a three-dimensional vector space, the three vectors in the equation a × b = c will always form a right-handed set (or a left-handed set, depending on how the cross product is defined), thus fixing an orientation in ...

  7. 3D rotation group - Wikipedia

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    As shown above, every element A ∈ 𝖘𝖔(3) is associated with a vector ω = θ u, where u = (x,y,z) is a unit magnitude vector. Since u is in the null space of A , if one now rotates to a new basis, through some other orthogonal matrix O , with u as the z axis, the final column and row of the rotation matrix in the new basis will be zero.

  8. Euler's rotation theorem - Wikipedia

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    The axis of rotation is known as an Euler axis, typically represented by a unit vector ê. Its product by the rotation angle is known as an axis-angle vector. The extension of the theorem to kinematics yields the concept of instant axis of rotation, a line of fixed points.

  9. Rotation around a fixed axis - Wikipedia

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    Rotation around a fixed axis or axial rotation is a special case of rotational motion around an axis of rotation fixed, stationary, or static in three-dimensional space.This type of motion excludes the possibility of the instantaneous axis of rotation changing its orientation and cannot describe such phenomena as wobbling or precession.