rotation.distance: Rotation angle or distance

In orientlib: Support for Orientation Data

Rotation angle or distance

Description

Calculates the angle (in radians) of the rotation taking one orientation to another.

Usage

rotation.angle(x)
rotation.distance(x, y)

Arguments

x,y	Two orientation objects

Details

If y is missing in a call to rotation.distance, it is treated as the identity, i.e. rotation.angle(x) is calculated.

Value

rotation.distance returns a vector of length max(length(x), length(y)) containing the angle of the rotation taking corresponding elements of x to y (with the usual recycling rules if they are different lengths).

rotation.angle is equivalent to calculating the rotation.distance to the identity matrix.

Author(s)

Duncan Murdoch

See Also

orientation-class, rotation.angle

Examples

rotation.angle(eulerzyx(1,0,0))
rotation.distance(eulerzyx(1,0,0), eulerzyx(0,1,0))

orientlib documentation built on Jan. 10, 2023, 5:14 p.m.