Re: Eulerian angles
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- Subject: [mg42682] Re: [mg42668] Eulerian angles
- From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:21:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Look at Quaternions and Rotation Sequences by Jack B. Kuipers. It does a good job of explaining Euler angles, etc., and it's fun to read. It makes terrestrial coordinates, etc. much more accessible. Bobby On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 03:20:01 -0400 (EDT), Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net> wrote: > Some 5 or 6 years ago, I asked a question in MathGroup about the "Euler > angles" that are used by RotateShape. Apparently physicists know all > about this stuff, but I still have almost no feeling for what these > angles are about. So I thought I'd issue this challenge: > > Create *the* graphic illustrating the Euler angles that ought to be in > the Mathematica Book --- hopefully understandable by a hack mathematician > and his calculus students. > > The winner will receive glowing praise and thanks in a soon-to-be > published book. > > ----- > Selwyn Hollis > http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis > > -- majort at cox-internet.com Bobby R. Treat
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