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Dear Qixu Cai,

maybe the confusion is due to that your quote seems incomplete.
According to the html-side the 'visualisation' includes two
back-rotations in addition to what you copied here, so there is at
least one difference to the visualisation of the Eulerian angles.

Best,
Tim

On 03/27/2014 07:11 AM, Qixu Cai wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> From the definition of CCP4 
> (http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/rotationmatrices.html), the polar angle
> (ϕ, ω, κ) can be visualised as rotation ϕ about Z, rotation ω about
> the new Y, rotation κ about the new Z. It seems the same as the ZXZ
> convention of eulerian angle definition. What's the difference
> between the CCP4 polar angle definition and eulerian angle ZXZ
> definition?
> 
> And what's the definition of polar angle XYK convention in GLRF
> program?
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 

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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen

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