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I like to do rotations with matrices. Let R_theta = the matrix with cos theta -sin theta sin theta cos theta Where theta is the angle of rotation So in your case, theta is 90 degres and cos 90=0, sin 90=1 so the matrix becomes 0 -1 1 0 Take any point, say (a,b) and multiply it by that matrix |0 -1| a|=(-b,a) 1 0| |b| So (1,0) becomes (0,1) and (-1,0) becomes (0,-1) ( 1,1) becomes (-1,1) Sadly the matrix stuff does not work well here, but the end result was (a,b) rotates to (-b,a)

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