Talk:Axis angle

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[edit] Relation with rotation around a fixed axis

I don't see how the subject of this article differs from rotation around a fixed axis. For instance, is there anything which should be in one article and not the other? -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:23, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

While the axis angle representation of rotations does describe a rotation around a fixed axis, it is more commonly used to represent general rotations. More importantly, while that article discusses the physics involved in simple rotations, my intention with this article was to focus on how the axis angle representation of rotations is used in robot kinematics, its relationship to other representations of rotations, and its part in the more general concept of displacements. It might turn out that merging them is a better idea, but I'd like to try this as a seperate article first. Kborer 15:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

If you look at the axis angle section in rotation matrix it seems that a summary of what I was going to talk about in this article is there. I'd still like to have a more detailed explanation in this article. Kborer 18:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. Have a go at it and we'll see how it pans out. Sorry for my rash actions, but I hate having many short and abandoned articles on very similar topics. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename article

I propose that the name of this article be changed to "Rotation vector". Kborer (talk) 19:43, 28 December 2007 (UTC)