From: Marlon SIDORE (marlon.sidore_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon May 11 2015 - 03:51:38 CDT
Dear all,
I have been trying to recalculate (using my own scripts) the value of the
spin angle along a trajectory for trajectories where the collective
variable was not set. As the collective variable is only a subset of the
orientation colvar, I tried to calculate it.
I could use the 2004 paper (Using quaternions to calculate RMSD) to obtain
the particular quaternion (which corresponds to the sought rotation) ...
However I have been stuck for a while at this step, probably due to a lack
of maths training.
The colvars manual says that this rotation corresponds to two rotations, a
rotation around an axis and a tilt rotation around an axis orthogonal to
the previous axis. The rotation I need (the spin angle) is the first one.
It seems that I need to know the axis beforehand: how ? And once I have it,
there's a formula to get the rotation given this axis, but do I need to do
something more to differentiate the rotation from the tilt ?
Thanks for your attention, and sorry if it all comes down to my lack of
math training.
Best regards,
Marlon Sidore
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