- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:11:03 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Le 25/11/11 20:46, L. David Baron a écrit : > Does anything define what it means to be clockwise around an axis? > Clockwise and counterclockwise make sense in terms of a plane and an > observer on one side of that plane, but I don't know what they mean > in terms of an axis. Can we use the right-hand rule instead? Or > can we define that the relevant axis points from the plane to the > observer or vice-versa? The latter. Defining ckw rotation around an axis is trivial: place an observer on a plane orthogonal to that axis, looking towards positive axis values; then rotate the plan clockwise for the observer around the axis. </Daniel>
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