[SciPy-Dev] [GSOC 2018 Project Thread]: Rotation formalism in 3 dimensions

[Phillip Feldman]

When you say "discrete cosine matrix", I think that you mean "direction
cosine matrix" (see
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/PlanetPhysics/Direction_Cosine_Matrix).

Phillip

On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Aditya Bharti <adibhar97 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> So this concludes week 1 of GSoC 2018. I must say it was a great learning
> experience and I invite you all to check out my account of this week on the
> blog <https://blogs.python-gsoc.org/aditya-bharti/>. This email is more
> of a technical update.
>
>    - So, the main `Rotation` class will live under a new sub module
>    `scipy.spatial.transform`.
>    - Conversion between quaternions and discrete cosine matrices was
>    implemented.
>    - The rotation class now supports `from_quaternion`, `from_dcm`,
>    `as_quaternion` and `as_dcm`, with support for multiple rotations in one
>    call.
>
> The project currently lives in my own fork of scipy here
> <https://github.com/adbugger/scipy/tree/rotation/scipy/spatial/transform>.
> Stay tuned for more updates!
>
> Best,
> Aditya
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2018 at 21:03, Aditya Bharti <adibhar97 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nikolay,
>>
>> I've used Wordpress only once before, so I don't know much about it. From
>> my limited experience, it is extremely customizable. You can customize
>> every thing from the look and feel to SEO characteristics. There are
>> apparently a lot of wordpress plugins for these kind of tasks. For this
>> particular blog, PSF had already setup an account for me with a site on it.
>> All I had to do was click on the 'New' button and open up the new post
>> page. There's a field for a header and body text, with options for adding
>> audio, video and hyperlinks.
>>
>> As regards to the post itself, sure I'll expand it with a brief overview,
>> motivation and an example. Note that the example will only show sample
>> usage, not any internals. I plan to borrow heavily from my proposal for
>> this purpose, I hope that's ok.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aditya
>>
>> On 2 May 2018 at 19:54, Nikolay Mayorov <nikolay.mayorov at zoho.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Aditya!
>>>
>>> Glad that you set up the blog and good job on setting up the
>>> documentation build as well.
>>>
>>> Curious, what is this blogging platform like? How do you create posts in
>>> it?
>>>
>>> As for your first post: while not strictly necessary I think it would be
>>> nice to see a more thorough introductory post with a brief overview,
>>> motivation and/or an example. Do you want to work on it?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Nikolay
>>>
>>>
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