# \[SOLVED\] Using Quaternions approach to rotate sphere from clicked point towards static point

**URL:** <https://discourse.threejs.org/t/solved-using-quaternions-approach-to-rotate-sphere-from-clicked-point-towards-static-point/3272>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** rotation, spherical, sphere, quaternion\
**Created:** [June 28, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/solved-using-quaternions-approach-to-rotate-sphere-from-clicked-point-towards-static-point/3272 "2018-06-28T23:02:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mugen87](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.threejs.org/mugen87/32/5645_2.png) [@Mugen87](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/Mugen87)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/solved-using-quaternions-approach-to-rotate-sphere-from-clicked-point-towards-static-point/3272/4 "2018-06-30T12:10:49Z")

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While reading your comment, I’ve remembered a similar topic some month ago. Please have a look at the following discussion. Maybe you can use the code presented in the respective fiddles:

> [@\[SOLVED\] Move items around a sphere](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/solved-move-items-around-a-sphere/1877):
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> Hello… I have a bunch of elements that sit on a sphere… I need to animate these items to a new position on the sphere. At the moment i am animating the position values, from a to b… alas the tween is not aware that it needs to animate around a sphere. Code thus far: Click the toggle button to see the issue. I’m sure there’s some special function I can use to adjust/normalize the values… alas “hello wall”!! any help, greatly appreciated

In any event, providing a simplified and reduced test case as a fiddle is much better than sharing the whole repo. In this way it’s not necessary to study your entire app. Instead, we can focus on one particular problem/challenge. The advantage of this approach is that more community members will give you better and more usable feedback.

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