Talk:Rotation (mathematics)/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Merging

Disagree about merging this with rotation. The article Coordinate rotation is mathematical, the article rotation is very physical/intuitive. Merging them would create an article rather not understandable to the general public.

These two articles overlap little, and describe two different perspectives. They are also big and rather well-written. I feel there is no necessity to merge, and much could be lost as result of merging. Oleg Alexandrov 01:26, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Move 3D matrix to rotation matrix

I've moved the matrix for rotation in 3D to rotation matrix, it, and its derivation are a bit long-winded for this article when we have another article dealing with the subject.

User:KSmrq, you reverted me, which I presume was just because you saw this page after I'd removed a bit but before I'd added it to the other page. Appologies for that, I should have done it in the other order.

If anyone disagrees with this move, then there's no point having the article rotation matrix at all. If you think that, then please recommend that it (together with the new content that I've written) be merged into this page, rather than just reverting this page, which creates duplicaton which is uncalled for, IMHO. TomViza 16:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

4 dimensional rotation

why is there nothing about 4 dimensional rotation? Granpa31 (talk) 16:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Sense typo

It looks like there is a typo. the rotation shown is clockwise, where it says that it is counter clockwise. I am not sure if the equation or the definition should be changed. It would be nice to clean this up. I would do so, but I do not know the best way to do so. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.237.42.82 (talk • contribs) 05:26, 2006 July 19

(Please add comments at end of page. Use "+" tab at top to start a new section. Thanks. --KSmrq^T 08:32, 19 July 2006 (UTC))

I have kept the definition and changed the equations.--Fer.jose.nandes (talk) 16:23, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Confusing

This sentence is very confusing:

"In a clockwise rotation of the plane or axes about the origin, the coordinates in the new plane will be rotated counterclockwise in the new coordinates."

I think what you're trying to say here is:

In a counterclockwise rotation of the plane or axes about the origin, the coordinates will be rotated clockwise about the origin.

—Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:40, 14 March 2009 (UTC)