Subject: [SOLVED] CCL:Ambiguous rotation values

From: Boris Gorelik <bgbg)at(pob.huji.ac.il>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 08:36:24 +0000

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:53:48 -0400 Rick Venable wrote:
>It occurs to me that for a unit vector and it's inverse, and rotations
>of A that differ by pi, you will get the same relative orientation.
>Try just sampling A from 0 to pi

Yes, that was one part of the problem, but that was not all.
We changed the sampling of phi and theta (angles that define axis direction) 
to be from 0 to PI (thus limiting the axis direction to one hemisphere), but 
the problem was still present. Then we noted two points:
1. If A (the rotation angle) equals zero then every <phi, theta> combination 
will result in the same rotation (or should I say lack of rotation)
2. If the direction of the rotation axis is parallel to Z (theta==0), for a 
given A angle, all phi values will result in the same rotation.

Thanks for help
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Boris Gorelik
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