Re: ROtation order.

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Don Hatch (hatch++at++hell.asd.sgi.com)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:59:16 -0700


On Apr 15, 4:58pm, Steve Baker wrote:
> Subject: ROtation order.
>
> Does anyone out there have a set of routines to convert between
> each of the (six?) possible orders of rotation and the Performer convention?
>
> I have a host program that wants me to perform rotations in the
> order heading-pitch-roll, but Performer uses (I think) roll-pitch-heading.
>
> Since I'm really sick to death of hacking these on a case-by-case basis,
> it would be really nice to have a simple set of conversions.
> (It would be even nicer if pfMatrix knew how to do this...)
>
> Thanks in advance...

Take a look Ken Shoemake's article "Euler Angle Conversion" in Graphics Gems
IV; I think it has everything you want an then some.

Don

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Don Hatch  hatch++at++sgi.com  (415) 933-5150  Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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