Flip vs. Rotate: Which is Spinning an Object 360º?

[justinswrong]

Hello,

Is spinning an object 360º horizontally a flip or a rotation? This is not homework, this is work work.

-Chris

 

[phinds]

Hello,

Is spinning an object 360º horizontally a flip or a rotation? This is not homework, this is work work.

-Chris

Well, flip means to turn over and rotate means to turn around, which you could have found in any online dictionary, so which do you think?

 

[jackwhirl]

Objectively, I don't think there is much of a difference.
Subjectively, if the operation exchanges left for right but not up for down, I'd call it a flip.
Pedantically, either operation executed to 360 degrees would result in no change whatsoever.

 

[Nathanael]

Subjectively, if the operation exchanges left for right but not up for down, I'd call it a flip.

At the end of the day, you define what is left/right and what is up/down.
(If I'm standing and spin, you'd call it a rotation, but if I lay down and roll (same thing but now I'm sideways) would you now call it a flip?)

So this is ultimately a subjective matter (I don't think there's a technical difference)

Objectively, I don't think there is much of a difference.

I agree