Math-Vector-BestRotation

Vector-Math-BestRotation

This module takes two equally sized sets of vectors and calculates the best orthogonal transformation to turn one of the vector sets into the other. "Best" means here to minimize the root mean square deviation between the sets.

An orthogonal transformation can be a rotation or a rotation combined with a reflection. If this is desired also the best rotation or the best flipped rotation can be calculated.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

DEPENDENCIES

Math::Vector::BestRotation depends on the following modules:

    Carp,                 tested with module version 1.08
    Math::MatrixReal,     tested with module version 2.05

Math::Vector::BestRotation requires Perl version 5.8.8. This is because it has not been tested with older versions of Perl although it is likely that it works at least with all 5.8 versions.

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Math::Vector::BestRotation

You can also look for information at:

RT, CPAN's request tracker

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Math-Vector-BestRotation

AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/Math-Vector-BestRotation

CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Math-Vector-BestRotation

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Vector-BestRotation/

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.