Quaternions in Python
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sat Oct 6 03:58:18 EDT 2001
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Nah. I mean, if efficiency was a big issue, you wouldn't be using an
> interpreted language in the first place. What's left, if you have a
> good matrix package, is something like if your language had complex
> numbers but didn't have reals. You can still represent the reals as
> complexes. For that matter, lots of languages have had reals but no
> integers. It hasn't been that bad a problem.
You're missing the point. Quaternions can behave qualitatively
differently from their corresponding matrices. You use quaternions in
which matrices have stability problems. Do a Web search with
"quaternions matrices gimbal lock" and you'll see what I mean.
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