Re: Euler angles, an optimal solution ?

Thanks for the comments Joao,

Our reason for choosing Euler angles is that they're easy to
understand, as you point out, and are well suited to simple uses of
the API. This seems appropriate for a JavaScript API.

It's true that more complicated applications may need to convert to
rotation matrices before they can do calculations based on the
orientation. However, I don't see any need to provide those matrices
as part of the API right now. I expect that if this becomes a common
requirement, libraries will be developed to provide this, and if it
becomes clear that this is a performance bottleneck, we can consider
adding to the spec at a later date.

Steve

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Received on Friday, 13 May 2011 17:36:08 UTC