github.com/gopherd/gonum@v0.0.4/spatial/r3/euler_example_test.go (about) 1 // Copyright ©2021 The Gonum Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 package r3_test 6 7 import ( 8 "fmt" 9 "math" 10 11 "github.com/gopherd/gonum/num/quat" 12 "github.com/gopherd/gonum/spatial/r3" 13 ) 14 15 // euler returns an r3.Rotation that corresponds to the Euler 16 // angles alpha, beta and gamma which are rotations around the x, 17 // y and z axes respectively. The order of rotations is x, y, z; 18 // there are many conventions for this ordering. 19 func euler(alpha, beta, gamma float64) r3.Rotation { 20 // Note that this function can be algebraically simplified 21 // to reduce floating point operations, but is left in this 22 // form for clarity. 23 var rot1, rot2, rot3 quat.Number 24 rot1.Imag, rot1.Real = math.Sincos(alpha / 2) // x-axis rotation 25 rot2.Jmag, rot2.Real = math.Sincos(beta / 2) // y-axis rotation 26 rot3.Kmag, rot3.Real = math.Sincos(gamma / 2) // z-axis rotation 27 28 return r3.Rotation(quat.Mul(rot3, quat.Mul(rot2, rot1))) // order of rotations 29 } 30 31 func ExampleRotation_eulerAngles() { 32 // It is possible to interconvert between the quaternion representation 33 // of a rotation and Euler angles, but this leads to problems. 34 // 35 // The first of these is that there are a variety of conventions for 36 // application of the rotations. 37 // 38 // The more serious consequence of using Euler angles is that it is 39 // possible to put the rotation system into a singularity which results 40 // in loss of degrees of freedom and so causes gimbal lock. This happens 41 // when the second axis to be rotated around is rotated to 𝝿/2. 42 // 43 // See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_angles for more details. 44 45 pt := r3.Vec{1, 0, 0} 46 47 // For the Euler conversion function in this example, the second rotation 48 // is around the y-axis. 49 const singularY = math.Pi / 2 50 51 arb := math.Pi / 4 52 53 fmt.Printf("rotate around x-axis: %.2f\n", euler(arb, 0, 0).Rotate(pt)) 54 fmt.Printf("rotate around y-axis: %.2f\n", euler(0, arb, 0).Rotate(pt)) 55 fmt.Printf("rotate around z-axis: %.2f\n", euler(0, 0, arb).Rotate(pt)) 56 fmt.Printf("rotate around x+y-axes: %.2f\n", euler(arb, arb, 0).Rotate(pt)) 57 fmt.Printf("rotate around x+z-axes: %.2f\n", euler(arb, 0, arb).Rotate(pt)) 58 fmt.Printf("rotate around y+z-axes: %.2f\n", euler(0, arb, arb).Rotate(pt)) 59 60 fmt.Printf("rotate around y-axis to singularity: %.2f\n", euler(0, singularY, 0).Rotate(pt)) 61 fmt.Printf("rotate around x+y-axes with singularity → gimbal lock: %.2f\n", euler(arb, singularY, 0).Rotate(pt)) 62 fmt.Printf("rotate around z+y-axes with singularity → gimbal lock: %.2f\n", euler(0, singularY, arb).Rotate(pt)) 63 fmt.Printf("rotate around all-axes with singularity → gimbal lock: %.2f\n", euler(arb, singularY, arb).Rotate(pt)) 64 65 // Output: 66 // 67 // rotate around x-axis: {1.00 0.00 0.00} 68 // rotate around y-axis: {0.71 0.00 -0.71} 69 // rotate around z-axis: {0.71 0.71 0.00} 70 // rotate around x+y-axes: {0.71 0.00 -0.71} 71 // rotate around x+z-axes: {0.71 0.71 0.00} 72 // rotate around y+z-axes: {0.50 0.50 -0.71} 73 // rotate around y-axis to singularity: {0.00 0.00 -1.00} 74 // rotate around x+y-axes with singularity → gimbal lock: {0.00 0.00 -1.00} 75 // rotate around z+y-axes with singularity → gimbal lock: {0.00 0.00 -1.00} 76 // rotate around all-axes with singularity → gimbal lock: {0.00 0.00 -1.00} 77 }