Hi Lutz! On Sunday 31 Jan 2010 08:17:40 Lutz Gehlen wrote: > Hello everybody, > I have developed a module that computes the best rotation that maps > a set of vectors onto another set of vectors. "Best rotation" means > here that it minimizes the sum of the squared distances between each > two corresponding vectors. > > The working title of the module is Math::BestRotation. The name is > not entirely accurate, because the module can also (if the user > chooses so) find the best orthogonal map (including rotations > combined with a reflection). So Math::BestOrthogonal or > Math::BestOrthogonalMap would be alternative names. However, I think > for people trying to find my module, the keyword rotation is most > helpful. > > I'm not really looking for a new name, personally I am happy with > Math::BestRotation.
That's good. I think there are too many "How should I call this module?" questions here (and elsewhere). See for example: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/sharp-perl.html#sharp-perl-how-to- name-a-flickr-module (short URL - http://xrl.us/bgt8nz ). > This is rather a "request for comments" so to > speak. So if you have any comments, please let me know. > I don't have any other comments except for thanking you for: 1. Thanking you for releasing this useful code. 2. Asking if your module can work with other mathematical APIs on CPAN such as http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDL/ , http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GSL/ , http://search.cpan.org/search?query=vector&mode=all , etc. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Thanks and best wishes > Lutz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
