MAT_AE(nged)

💅 MAT_AE (nged) — bestie's guide to spinning things ✨

okay so like, this is part of the BRL-CAD user commands set (nged), and it's honestly such a little icon. It does one thing and it does it well: it takes an azimuth and an elevation and hands you back a rotation matrix. Periodt. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mat_ae — compute a rotation matrix from azimuth and elevation angles 💫

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mat_ae azimuth elevation

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the mat_ae command computes a 4x4 rotation matrix from an azimuth and elevation angle pair (both in degrees, bestie, degrees). The result comes back as a 16-element space-separated matrix string, encoded by bn_encode_mat. It's literally the GED wrapper for bn_mat_ae — like, that's its whole job. 👑

Arguments — the two things you're giving it:

• azimuth — the azimuth angle in degrees (rotation around the Z-axis). 🌀
• elevation — the elevation angle in degrees (rotation above/below the XY plane). ⬆️⬇️

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Example 1. Generate a rotation matrix from azimuth and elevation

mged> mat_ae 35 20

Returns the 4x4 rotation matrix corresponding to azimuth 35° and elevation 20° as a 16-element string. like, sixteen elements. count 'em. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team 💜 (the actual authors, no cap)

🫶 BUG REPORTS 🫶

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. fr fr, if something's acting up, tell them — they wanna know. 📧

that's the whole page bb, you ate that 💅✨ — sign-off time: this one's from the BRL-CAD user commands collection, MAT_AE(nged), and yes that footer said BRL-CAD, so shoutout to them. 🌈💖