On 2005-05-03 (20:24) Bob Hanson wrote:

>I think the other convention is the "x-convention" ZXZ.
>Is it safe to say that "show orientation" is going to continue
>to elicit curiosity because of the unfamiliarity of Euler angles?
>If so, perhaps a comment would help. Maybe:
>
> >>show orientation
>
>moveTo 1 -574 772 273 91.2;
>OR
>reset; rotate z -21.1; rotate y 86.9;; rotate z 52.2;
>#No, damn it! It's not supposed to be "rotate x". THIS IS NOT A BUG.
>

as much as I enjoy this one ;-)

I don't think it is necessary.  perhaps a comment in the code...


I asked mainly because one might want to parse the commands out of a show 
orientation callback, and I saw the bug report unattended - which I will now 
remedy. :-)

bye,

tim
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