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How to rotate points on 2D coordinate systems

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I have some points on a 2D Cartesian coordinate system. I want to rotate all these points 90 degrees counterclockwise. What is the best solution? (When I work with 3D coordinates, I use “view” to change the view direction, but apparently, it doesn’t work with 2D coordinates)

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John Chilleri
John Chilleri on 6 Feb 2017
Hello,
You can rotate your points with a rotation matrix:
Here's a simple implementation,
% Create rotation matrix
theta = 90; % to rotate 90 counterclockwise
R = [cosd(theta) -sind(theta); sind(theta) cosd(theta)];
% Rotate your point(s)
point = [3 5]'; % arbitrarily selected
rotpoint = R*point;
The rotpoint is the 90 degree counterclockwise rotated version of your original point.
Hope this helps!
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Ria
Ria on 12 Feb 2024
Hello, if you needed the rotation clockwise, could you just reverse each sign of cosd and sind?
George Abrahams
George Abrahams on 12 Feb 2024
@Ria You have two options. First option, set theta, the angle of rotation, to -90. Second option, the inverse of a rotation matrix is its transpose, , so transpose the matrix. In MATLAB this is typically achieved with the .' syntax.
R = [cosd(-90) -sind(-90); sind(-90) cosd(-90)]
R = 2×2
0 1 -1 0
R = [cosd(90) -sind(90); sind(90) cosd(90)].'
R = 2×2
0 1 -1 0

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