Maths - Rotations using quaternions - open forum discussion

By: Nobody/Anonymous - nobody
file Error in Rotations using quaternions  
2005-04-13 09:57

Computing the i part, when groupz the z multiplied it gets 
z*(qx*qz+ qw*qw+ qy*qw+ qz*qx) instead of z*(qx*qz+ qw*qy+ qy*qw+ qz*qx), and the errors goes down until the end 

By: Martin Baker - martinbaker
file RE: Error in Rotations using quaternions  
2005-04-13 17:22

Thanks very much, I found the error you refer to and corrected it in: 
https://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/algebra/realNormedAlgebra/quaternions/transforms/ 
 
I hope I have not used the incorrect result in anything else! 
 
Martin 


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