Well, I understand vectors somewhat. I plan on doing a tutorial someday on
this... But for now, he's what I got:

Vrotate and vaxis_rotate

These both do much the same thing. they both rotate a given point.
 vrotate rotates the point around the origin, and is useful for doing
orbits, etc.
Example:

sphere { <0,0,0> 2 texture { Chrome_Metal } }
#declare Count = 0
#while (Count < 9 )
   #declare NewPoint=vrotate(<3,0,0>,<45*Count,0,0>)
   sphere { NewPoint,1 texture { Chrome_Metal pigment { Red } } }
   #declare Count = Count + 1
#end

This will make a sphere with 8 others around it in the x axis.

vaxis_rotate, on the other hand, lets you define an arbitrary axis , and
rotate the point around that.

vaxis_rotate is a little bit harder to understand.. (heh, I'm not sure if I
understand it!)
Attempt at an example:

sphere { <0,3,0> 2 texture { Chrome_Metal } }
#declare Count = 0
#while (Count < 9 )
   #declare NewPoint=vaxis_rotate(<5,0,0>,<1,1,0>,45*Count)
   sphere { NewPoint,1 texture { Chrome_Metal pigment { Red } } }
   #declare Count = Count + 1
#end


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Jason Foster aka Guido wrote in message <35456C9C.D946E883@wavetech.net>...
>Does anyone know of a simple or could give me a simple example of
>rotating lets say a sphere around a point using vrotate?  Thanx in
>advance...
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