How to center a cloud of data points (x,y,z) to coordinate origin in 3-D space?

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For gait analysis, I have multiple markers moving in 3-D space during the duration of 10 seconds and I'd like to center the each marker's 3-D coordinate (x,y,z) around the origin of coordinate (0,0,0). I'm wondering if there's a toolbox/function to achieve this?
For simplicity, I'll attach an example of 10 ms of one marker.
X (mm) y (mm) z (mm)
167.282166 372.896698 389.281158
167.471191 372.208740 389.362701
167.996216 372.071564 389.467804
168.180084 371.414276 389.551056
168.273346 370.742065 389.593597
168.421082 370.094299 389.734467
168.310608 369.163635 389.730011
168.288498 368.446075 389.701782
168.616959 368.038177 389.85672
168.659393 367.369171 389.916443

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Jan
Jan on 19 Dec 2021
I'm not sure, what "center each marker" means. But I assume you want to subtract the mean value:
trajectory = [167.282166 372.896698 389.281158; ...
167.471191 372.208740 389.362701; ...
167.996216 372.071564 389.467804; ...
168.180084 371.414276 389.551056];
centered_trajectory = trajectory - mean(trajectory, 1);

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