The cone or plane best fit of conically or cylindrical disposed s-plane poles

Finding the best fit pole of rotation for a given set of points that are assumed to lie on a mutual small or great circle circle

Usage

best_cone_ramsay(x)

best_cone_ramsay(x)

Arguments

x

matrix. Cartesian coordinates of points

Value

numeric vector with

x,y,z

Cartesian coordinates of best fit pole of plane or cone axis,

e

residual of the sum of square of the deviations of the observed poles to the planes from the best fit pole, and

K

(only for cones) half apical angle of best fit cone (in radians).

References

Ramsay, 1967, p. 18-21

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# example from Ramsay, 1967, p. 20
x <- rbind(
  c(-67, -31, -71),
  c(-62, -53, -50),
  c(-62, -75, -34),
  c(-58, 85, -34),
  c(-79, 40, -52),
  c(90, 14, -75),
  c(80, 10, 90)
) |> acoscartesian_to_cartesian()
best_cone_ramsay(x) # expect: c(0.856, -0.157, -0.492, NA, 1.56207)
best_plane_ramsay(x) # expect: c(0.852, -0.154, -0.502, 1-1.002)
} # }