Re: [boost] [linear algebra] - question to David Abrahams

From: Hubert Holin (Hubert.Holin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-17 09:21:34

Andy Little <andy <at> servocomm.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> "Hubert Holin" <Hubert.Holin <at> lmd.polytechnique.fr> wrote

> >      I am willing to build the bridges, but there has to bee something at the
> > end of the bridge  ! There are geometry-oriented C++ libraries outside
> > Boost,
> > but none within, despite several proposals to develop such over the last few
> > years. Basicaly, that's why I included some example code to show how
> > quaternions
> > could be plugged into rotation matrices, but no formal, part-of-the-library
> > component.

> I am happy to do the work. I hope that you might be willing to make sure that
> the output makes some sort of sense though 

Yes, certainly (there is a chance, this time, that I will actually have the time
to work on many of the things I promissed long ago).

> FWIW Here is a reinterpretation of  the quaternion_to_R3_rotation in
>     http://www.boost.org/libs/math/quaternion/HSO3.hpp

OK, I'll take a look in a couple of days (I am just back from
vacation, and currently frenetically playing "cat soup" ;-)    ).

Merci

Hubert Holin