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Avoiding Gimbal Lock using Quaternions - confused2 - Jan 23, 2021
I'm not a mathematician and have spent countless hours with the internal workings of quaternions trying to make sense of them enough to actually use them - finally - I can use them. I don't know how widely read this thread will be but if anyone wants to ask HOW? I have the code to use them. It is a real pig but once set up it verges on the magical. Ask and it shall be given.
RE: Avoiding Gimbal Lock using Quaternions - C C - Jan 23, 2021
I've heard of the Advanced Flat Earth Society scientists recruiting quaternions to... Well, never mind.
RE: Avoiding Gimbal Lock using Quaternions - confused2 - Jan 23, 2021
The brilliant and amazingly generous Martin John Baker has created a wonderful website here:
https://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/geometry/rotations/conversions/quaternionToAngle/index.htm
It doesn't do the - How do I plug this into Opengl? which is where I might be able to help.
Lord Kelvin, 1892:
"Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done; and, though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way, including Clerk Maxwell."