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+## Copyright (C) 2002 Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn{Function File} {@var{r} = } rotv ( v, ang )
+## @cindex
+## The functionrotv calculates a Matrix of rotation about @var{v} w/ angle |v|
+## r = rotv(v [,ang])
+##
+## Returns the rotation matrix w/ axis v, and angle, in radians, norm(v) or
+## ang (if present).
+##
+## rotv(v) == w'*w + cos(a) * (eye(3)-w'*w) - sin(a) * crossmat(w)
+##
+## where a = norm (v) and w = v/a.
+##
+## v and ang may be vertically stacked : If 'v' is 2x3, then
+## rotv( v ) == [rotv(v(1,:)); rotv(v(2,:))]
+##
+## @example
+##
+## @end example
+## @seealso{rotparams, rota, rot}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function r = rotv(v ,ang)
+
+ if nargin > 1
+ v = v.*((ang(:)./sqrt(sum(v'.^2))')*ones(1,3));
+ end
+ ## For checking only
+ ## v00 = v ;
+ ## static toto = floor(rand(1)*100) ;
+ ## toto
+ a = sqrt(sum(v'.^2))' ;
+ oka = find(a!=0);
+ if all(size(oka)),
+ v(oka,:) = v(oka,:)./(a(oka)*ones(1,3)) ;
+ end
+ ## ca = cos(a);
+ ## sa = sin(a);
+
+ N = size(v,1) ; N3 = 3*N ;
+ r = (reshape( v', N3,1 )*ones(1,3)).*kron(v,ones(3,1)) ;
+ r += kron(cos(a),ones(3,3)) .* (kron(ones(N,1),eye(3))-r) ;
+
+ ## kron(cos(a),ones(3,3)) .* (kron(ones(N,1),eye(3))-r0)
+ ## cos(a)
+
+ tmp = zeros(N3,3) ;
+ tmp( 2:3:N3,1 ) = v(:,3) ;
+ tmp( 1:3:N3,2 ) = -v(:,3) ;
+ tmp( 3:3:N3,1 ) = -v(:,2) ;
+ tmp( 1:3:N3,3 ) = v(:,2) ;
+ tmp( 2:3:N3,3 ) = -v(:,1) ;
+ tmp( 3:3:N3,2 ) = v(:,1) ;
+ ## keyboard
+ r -= kron(sin(a),ones(3)) .* tmp ;
+
+endfunction
+
+## For checking only
+## r2 = zeros(N3,3) ;
+## for i=1:size(v,1),
+## v0 = v00(i,:);
+## t = norm(v0);
+## if t, v0 = v0/t; end;
+## r2(3*i-2:3*i,:) = v0'*v0 + cos(t)*(eye(3)-v0'*v0) + -sin(t)*[0, -v0(3), v0(2);v0(3), 0, -v0(1);-v0(2), v0(1), 0];
+## end
+## max(abs(r2(:)-r(:)))