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quat

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I'm curious what motivated you to want to use a dual quaternion or why you want a slerp algorithm for that.

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Quick take

the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quat.

noun

the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"

See also: kat, khat, qat, cat

Example sentences

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I'm curious what motivated you to want to use a dual quaternion or why you want a slerp algorithm for that.

2

I can't easily compose 2 rotations, a translation, a dual quat, and a quat, and then expect it to work on a line for example.

3

So I'm not sure what the advantage of a dual quaternion would be in this context, or do you use dual quaternions in some completely different way?

4

Never had a problem manipulating quaternions in JavaScript.

5

I posted some examples in another comment, but essentially, quats and dual-quats generally only work on points, and in a somewhat awkward manner.

6

Indeed many animation libraries store the quaternion and translation as separate components.

7

That sounds useful for animation but most animation or computer graphics people would represent a rigid transformations with a quaternion and a translation vector, and if interpolating a rigid transformations they would slerp the quat and linearly interpolate the translation.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use quat in a sentence?

I'm curious what motivated you to want to use a dual quaternion or why you want a slerp algorithm for that.

What does quat mean?

the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"

What part of speech is quat?

quat is commonly used as noun.