Quaternions and Some Questions
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| Hi again friends. I need your math help again. Now it is about quaternions. First, i don't understand quaternions well. I know they have 4 parameters: a vector and a scalar indicating the rotation in 3d space. I don't need to understand them perfectly, but i need to know how to do some operations with them: I want to compare 2 quaternions, to know how much different they are. For example, if i had euler rotations, i could compare every angle (pitch,yaw,roll) just with abs(r1#-r2#) so i know the difference in every angle. But what about quaternions?. What i need is to compare two rotations in quaternions and update the second if they are different enough... |
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| hehe, I need to upgrade my knowledge a bit too, I've never worked with quartonians ...errr.. Quaternions! :) |
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| Have you seen the Quaternion tutorial and code from Chris C?... http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=55697 I'm not sure if it will help, but it should explain the basics etc. |
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| Try this QuatAngleDifference# = acos(q1\x*q2\x + q1\y*q2\y + q1\z*q2\z + q1\w*q2\w) b.t.w, I don't think quaternions contain a regular vector, else why would quat.w have any bearing on the vector as it does in the above dotproduct code? |
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| Cygnus: hehe, I need to upgrade my knowledge a bit too, I've never worked with quartonians ...errr.. Quaternions! :) Glad you corrected yourself. As no doubt everyone knows, quartonians are people who believe in using American quarts, not metric liters, whereas Quaternions are those math thingees ;0 |
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