rot2Zplane: Rotate to Z-plane
In geophys: Geophysics, Continuum Mechanics, Gravity Modeling

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Rotation matrix to project a set of 3D points to z-plane

1	rot2Zplane(vec, p)

`vec`	3D normal vector
`p`	translation from this point

provides a matrix to rotate and translate a set of points to the X-Y plane. Used for internal calculations

Matrix for projection

Jonathan M. Lees<jonathan.lees@unc.edu>

gmat

P1=runif(3)
P2=runif(3)
P3=runif(3)

PP = rbind(P1, P2, P3, rep(1, 3) )

    g1 = PP[1, 1:3] - PP[3, 1:3]
    g2 = PP[2, 1:3] - PP[3, 1:3]


 B = unlist(AXB.prod(list(x = g1[1], y = g1[2], z = g1[3]), 
        list(x = g2[1], y = g2[2], z = g2[3])))
    B = B/sqrt(sum(B * B))


MF = rot2Zplane(B, P3) 

UMAT = t(PP)