quaternions


quaternions, a Fortran90 code which carries out some simple arithmetic operations for quaternions.

Rotations in 3D can be represented in a number of ways, including quaternions, a rotation matrix, and a combination of a rotation axis and rotation angle. This library includes functions to convert a rotation from one representation to another, and to apply a rotation to a given vector.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

quaternions is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

quaternions_test

c8lib, a Fortran90 code which implements certain elementary functions for double precision complex (C8) variables;

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i4lib, a Fortran90 code which contains many utility routines, using "I4" or "single precision integer" arithmetic.

r8lib, a Fortran90 code which contains many utility routines, using "R8" or "double precision real" arithmetic.

Reference:

  1. Jack Kuipers,
    Quaternions and Rotation Sequences,
    Princeton, 1998,
    ISBN: 0691102988,
    LC: QA196.K85.

Source Code:


Last revised on 23 August 2020.