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    In mathematics, the axisangle representation parameterizes a rotation in a three-dimensional Euclidean space by two quantities: a unit vector e indicating...
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    Rotation (redirect from Axis of rotation)
    possible axes and angles of rotation, including chaotic rotation (between arbitrary orientations), in contrast to rotation around a fixed axis. The special...
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    prescribed by the right-hand rule. The rotation axis is sometimes called the Euler axis. The axisangle representation is predicated on Euler's rotation theorem...
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    single rotation around a fixed axis. This gives one common way of representing the orientation using an axisangle representation. Other widely used methods...
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  • There are several methods to compute the axis and angle from a rotation matrix (see also axisangle representation). Here, we only describe the method based...
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  • matrix in SO(3), the group of all rotation matrices, from an axisangle representation. In terms of Lie theory, the Rodrigues' formula provides an algorithm...
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    used as part of the representation of a more complicated object's orientation in physical space (e.g., axisangle representation). Two directions are...
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  • space. Specifically, they encode information about an axis-angle rotation about an arbitrary axis. Rotation and orientation quaternions have applications...
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  • corresponds to 3-dimensional rotation, and has the angle 2a about the axis r in axisangle representation. The collection of versors, with quaternion multiplication...
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    [citation needed] 3D projection Rotation Axis-angle representation Conversion between quaternions and Euler angles Davenport chained rotations Euler's rotation...
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    called the origin; the polar angle θ between this radial line and a given polar axis; and the azimuthal angle φ, which is the angle of rotation of the radial...
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  • eigenvalues. The angle θ which appears in the eigenvalue expression corresponds to the angle of the Euler axis and angle representation. The eigenvector...
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    this article the axis-angle representation is used for ρ. The rotation is about an axis in the direction of a unit vector e, through angle θ (positive anticlockwise...
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    axisangle representation of rotations, the quaternion and dual quaternion representations of rotations and translations, the plücker representation of...
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    for rotations about a fixed point. Axisangle representation (pictured at the right) specifies an angle with the axis about which the rotation takes place...
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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...
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    article the axis-angle representation is used, and θ = θe is the "axis-angle vector", the angle θ multiplied by a unit vector e parallel to the axis. Also,...
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    relative to each other according to either of two schemes: first-angle or third-angle projection. In each, the appearances of views may be thought of as...
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    similar method, called axis-angle representation, describes a rotation or orientation using a unit vector aligned with the rotation axis, and a separate value...
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  • of the magic angle is half of the opening angle formed when a cube is rotated from its space diagonal axis, which may be represented as arccos −⁠1/3⁠...
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    \operatorname {\text{SO}} (3)\cong \mathbb {RP} ^{3}} (shown using the axis-angle representation). The proof uses known results in algebraic topology. The same...
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    The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought...
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    Fig. 3-2: the x-axis is drawn perpendicular to the ct′-axis, the x′ and ct-axes are added at angle φ; and the x′-axis is drawn at angle θ with respect...
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    Phasor (redirect from Angle notation)
    negative peak value, (−Amax) at 270° or 3π⁄2. Then the time axis of the waveform represents the angle either in degrees or radians through which the phasor...
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    about an axis perpendicular to the relative velocities; The rotation is given by is a 4×4 rotation matrix R in the axisangle representation, and coordinate...
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  • about it; this is the axis angle representation of a rotation. The plane of rotation is the plane orthogonal to this axis, so the axis is a surface normal...
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  • angle, axis/angle, or Rodrigues vector space. Unit quaternions, while computationally convenient, do not lend themselves to graphical representation because...
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    that the horizontal x-axis, called the real axis, is formed by the real numbers, and the vertical y-axis, called the imaginary axis, is formed by the imaginary...
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    }\right)} , and rotation angle θ {\displaystyle \theta } (the angle from the positive horizontal axis to the ellipse's major axis) using the formulae: A...
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    generalises to higher dimensions. The rotation vector, from the axisangle representation of rotations, is a compact way of representing rotations in three...
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