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K. Sung, G. SmithBasic Math for Game Development with Unity 3Dhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9885-5_8

8. Quaternions and Rotations

Kelvin Sung1   and Gregory Smith2
(1)
Bothell, WA, USA
(2)
Caldwell, ID, USA
 
After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Appreciate that the rotation of a position is a movement of constant distance around an axis

  • Characterize the rotation of a position by an angle and an axis of rotation

  • Discuss quaternions as operators for representing rotations

  • Implement basic quaternion algebra in rotating positions

  • Appreciate that consecutive rotations on objects can be modeled by ordered concatenation of quaternions

  • Derive the ...

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