-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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, > - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iD8DBQFTNAz0UxlJ7aRr7hoRAj7IAKDs/J0L/XCYPpQSyB2BPJ2uWV2lVgCeKD72 0DemwU57v6fekF6iOC4/5IA= =PeT9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----