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  Re: rotation around arbitary axis?  
From: Sebastian H 
Date: 14 Feb 2002 08:29:11
Message: <3C6BBC09.7080700@web.de>
Bill DeWitt wrote:
> "Christopher James Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote :
> 
>>None of those are rotated at all, they all stay in their original
>>orientation.
>>
> 
>     Then maybe I did misunderstand the question, I thought he wanted to
> rotate an object -around- the axis, not rotate the -object- around an
> axis.... uh... what ever that means...
> 
> 
> 

Damn, didn't expected such confusion, I have to formulate my question 
better. :-))

What I wanted is a function like "rotate 90*x" but for "x" an arbitary 
vector.


your name the right way?) I took a look at transforms.inc where there is 
a macro "Axis_Rotate_Trans(Axis, Angle)" which does exactly this.

So again rtfm! :-)

Sebastian H.


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