Animated rotations using quaternions and splines on a 4D sphere

zbMATH Open0875.68913MaRDI QIDQ1817179FDOQ1817179

Authors: Gregory M. Nielson, Randy Heiland 

Publication date: 13 May 1997

Published in: Programming and Computer Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

splinesrotation matrixquaternion representationfour-dimensional sphereanimated rotationscurve interpolation scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

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