Direct3D Geometry: two-vector rotation matrix

Given two 3D vectors A and B, I need to get a rotation matrix that rotates from A to B.

This is what I came up with:

  • Derive cosine from acos (A. B)
  • Output sine from asin (| A x B | / (| A | * | B |))
  • Use A x B as axis of rotation
  • Use the matrix shown at the bottom of this page (axis angle)

This works great except for the 0 ° turns. (which I ignore) and 180 ° (which I consider as a special case). Is there a more graceful way to do this using the Direct3D library? I'm looking for a specific Direct3D answer.

Edit: removed acos and asin (see Hugh Allen's post )

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This is probably more of a typo than a thinking, but acos (AB) is an angle, not its cosine. Similarly for point 2.



You can calculate sin from cos using sin ^ 2 + cos ^ 2 = 1. That is, sin = sqrt (1-cos * cos). This will be cheaper than the vector expression used, and will also eliminate the special cases for 0/180 degrees.

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No, you are pretty much doing it your best. I don't think there is a built-in DirectX feature that does what you want. For step 4, you can use D3DXMatrixRotationAxis()

. Just be careful with edge cases like when | A | or | B | is zero or when the angle is 0 ° or 180 °.



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You can see the following article: siggraph link text

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Perhaps you can use D3DXMatrixLookAtLH?

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