I hope he is. :) Thanks guys, I found that very illuminating!
On Mar 5, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Steven Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > makes good sense to me... you still writing docs at autodesk grahame? > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grahame Fuller <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On the distinction between orientation and rotation, it's not hard and fast >> but I tend to use "orientation" when talking about a static pose, and >> "rotation" when talking about applying a transform (i.e.actively turning >> something). The final orientation is the product of the successive rotations >> that something took to get to that pose, but it's also the rotation that you >> would apply to get to that orientation from an unrotated pose in one step. >> >> It's a bit like positions and translations. The final position is the sum of >> all the translations that have been performed, and it's also the translation >> that you woould apply to get there from (0, 0, 0). >> >> Make sense?
