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- From: spworley@netcom.com (Steven)
- Subject: Shoemake quaternion typos
- Message-ID: <rd#n39#.spworley@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 07:10:03 GMT
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- I've been implementing a quaternion camera model, and have been making
- some routines for quick conversion of quaternions to matrix to Euler,
- etc. Most of this is very nicely done in the '85 SIGGRAPH paper from
- Shoemake. One thing I've added was a conversion from a "lookat" and
- "up" vector to a quaternion orientation.
-
- My big question is more of a doublecheck. Is there an error in the
- Shoemake paper???? On page 253 (Of the SIGGRAPH Proceedings, second
- to last page of the paper) Shoemakes gives a conversion from
- Euler angles to a matrix: the second column second row entry
- is "sin psi sin theta sin phi + cos psi cos theta"
- but when I do the math, I get:
- "sin psi sin theta sin phi + cos psi cos phi"
-
- I am almost certain the latter is correct, but I just want some extra
- confirmation. Anyone know about any typos in this (key) document?
-
- Thanks!
- -Steve
-