It is sometimes useful to use this to orient the view and export this orientation to other programs. The orientation matrix of the view can be displayed (in the console) using:
(view-matrix)
Also, the internal representation of the view can be returned and set using:
(view-quaternion) to return a 4-element list
(set-view-quaternion i j k l) which sets the view quaternion.
So the usage of these functions would be something like:
(let ((v (view-quaternion))) ;; manipulate v here, maybe (apply set-view-quaternion v))