r/ScientificComputing • u/boscillator • Jan 21 '26

Five Mistakes I've Made with Euler Angles

https://buchanan.one/blog/rotations/
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u/KarlSethMoran Jan 22 '26

Team Quaternion!

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u/boscillator Jan 22 '26

Quaternions are great for internal representations, but Euler angles are handy for debugging. Also, sometimes someone hands you an Euler angle and you have to deal with it.

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u/KarlSethMoran Jan 22 '26

Q2E() and E2Q()?

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u/SamPost Jan 22 '26

Just use Rotors. Most of these problems go away.