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Foil 77 Rotation Field in Transform - I

From VRML 2 Basic Concepts and Definitions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Zeynep Ozdemir(Geoffrey C. Fox)
1 rotation field of the Transform node provide the rotation operation.
2 First three values defines the rotation axis which is an imaginary line about which a coordinate system is rotated.
  • To define an axis it is necessary to specify the two end points in the 3D coordinate system.
  • The First point comes from the center field of the Transform node and the other end point's coordinate values come from the rotation field.
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