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Centering vectors

Source: R/ortensor.R
center.Rd

Rotate vector object to position that ortensor eigenvectors are parallel to axes of coordinate system: E3||X (north-south), E2||X(east-west), E1||X(vertical). Useful when one wants to inspect the distribution of vectors, especially when vectors plot near the perimeter of the stereonet.

Usage

center(x, max_vertical = FALSE)

Arguments

x

object of class "Vec3", "Line", "Ray", "Plane", "Pair", or "Fault", where the rows are the observations and the columns are the coordinates.

max_vertical

Whether the maximum of the von Mises-Fisher distribution is already vertical or not.

Value

Object of class of x

See also

ot_eigen()

Examples

set.seed(1)
mu <- Line(120, 10)
x <- rkent(100, mu = mu, k = 20, b = 5)
x_centered <- center(x)

# plot results
plot(x, col = "grey", grid.params = list(center = Line(0, 90)))
points(x_centered, col = "#B63679", pch = 16)
legend("topright", legend = c("original", "centered"), col = c("grey", "#B63679"), pch = 16)