Re: pfQuat::squad()

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From: Bram Stolk (bram++at++sara.nl)
Date: 08/17/2000 08:51:08

"Michael T. Jones" wrote:

> Also, the man page for pfQuat explains this reasonably. (FYI: At the bottom
> of that page, in the "references" section, is one of the several little jokes in
> the documentation intended to lift the spirits of developers during dark
> nights of debugging. I wonder how many have been noticed in the past
> eight years of Performer?)

Uh, the jokes continues to go right past my simple mind :-)
The reference to a paper of july 1844 really is no joke: the math
behind Quaternions is really that old, or so I've been told
at this years SIGGRAPH course 'Visualizing Quaternions'.
I'll read the references, but I thought that mondaine details
like the order and format of the func's arguments would not be
found in the math papers, as I assume it's Performer specific.
 
    Bram 

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