It's called the "y-convention of Euler Angles"
Tim, you will appreciate this reference: http://biomachina.org/publications_web/KOVA02.pdf
timothy driscoll wrote:
so out of curiosity, can I ask why it is done this way instead of an xyz rotation (or zyx)?
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