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On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:27:34 -0700, John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>
declaimed the following:


>    If you have to numerically integrate torques to get
>angular velocity, and angular velocity to get angular position,
>quaternions are the way to go.  If you want to understand
>all this, there's a good writeup in one of the Graphics Gems
>books.
>
	There are a couple of texts dedicated just to quartenions...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=quarternions&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aquarternions

	I have the Kuipers, may have the Vince -- though the date is
problematic; bought them as my prior job touched on them in some
applications, but as I was laid off in October 2011, haven't done much.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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