[Wien] local rotation matrix
Peter Blaha
pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Sep 16 14:28:11 CEST 2005
The rotated (new) coordinates are R', the old ones R and the matrix is M:
R' = R . M
0 (0 1 0 )
0 = (0 1 0) . (0 0 1 )
1 (1 0 0 )
As was mentioned before, it's all a matter of convention (actually in the
code the matrix is transposed when reading it).
> Thanks for your explanation, but still I cannot well understand
> this point. Since 'Symmety' detects mny (see below), in the
> local (new) coordinate system, new z' must be the original y,
> but why in the output matrix
> 0 1 0
> 0 0 1
> 1 0 0
> it becomes x'.
P.Blaha
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