[nosferalatu123]

(author here) Be careful because (ignoring scale for to keep things simple) a transformation T can be decomposed into a translation and rotation, such that T=Rotation * Translation, but that translation is not along the axis of rotation. You probably want to instead interpolate with a screw motion, which is a rotation about an axis along with a translation along that axis (a helical curve; a curve along the outside of a cylinder). The screw motion is what you get when you interpolate with exp(log(T)*t).

[xeonmc]

Yes, hence I wrote (axial translation)+(screw rotation) instead of just (translation)+(rotation).

[nosferalatu123]

Yep!