Quaternions: what are they, and why do we need to know?

Acta Crystallogr A Found Adv. 2020 Sep 1;76(Pt 5):556-558. doi: 10.1107/S2053273320010359. Epub 2020 Aug 6.

Author

Berthold K P Horn¹

Affiliation

¹ Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

PMID: 32869752
DOI: 10.1107/S2053273320010359

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Keywords: ODF; data alignment; orientation; orientation distribution function; orthogonal Procrustes problem; quaternions; rotation.