Getting orthogonal vector using XYZVector

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Hello,
For rotate a vector along an axis and an angle you can use the AxisAngle class.
Here is an examples:

using namespace ROOT::Math;
XYZVector     axis(ax,ay,az);
AxisAngle     rot(axis,angle);
XYZVector originalVector(x,y,z);
XYZVector rotatedVector = rot(originalVector);

For Vector::Orthogonal we don’t have a replacement, I am actually not sure what it is returned, since given a 3D vector, there is an infinite number of orthogonal vectors belonging to the orthogonal plance.

Lorenzo

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