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16 Apr 2024 00:55:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Get Euler angles from unit vector?  
From: clipka
Date: 22 Sep 2018 08:32:50
Message: <5ba63672$1@news.povray.org>
Am 22.09.2018 um 13:49 schrieb Mike Horvath:
> Is it possible to extract the Euler rotation amounts from a unit vector?
> Is there a command that does this? Thanks.

A unit vector by itself is not enough to fully specify a free rotation
in 3D space; you need two vectors for that.

Most notably, a single unit vector representation would allow for
arbitrary rotations around the direction of that vector.


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