trackball.h

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00037 /*
00038  * trackball.h
00039  * A virtual trackball implementation
00040  * Written by Gavin Bell for Silicon Graphics, November 1988.
00041  */
00042 
00043 /*
00044  * Pass the x and y coordinates of the last and current positions of
00045  * the mouse, scaled so they are from (-1.0 ... 1.0).
00046  *
00047  * The resulting rotation is returned as a quaternion rotation in the
00048  * first paramater.
00049  */
00050 void
00051 trackball(float q[4], float p1x, float p1y, float p2x, float p2y);
00052 
00053 /*
00054  * Given two quaternions, add them together to get a third quaternion.
00055  * Adding quaternions to get a compound rotation is analagous to adding
00056  * translations to get a compound translation.  When incrementally
00057  * adding rotations, the first argument here should be the new
00058  * rotation, the second and third the total rotation (which will be
00059  * over-written with the resulting new total rotation).
00060  */
00061 void
00062 add_quats(float *q1, float *q2, float *dest);
00063 
00064 /*
00065  * A useful function, builds a rotation matrix in Matrix based on
00066  * given quaternion.
00067  */
00068 void
00069 build_rotmatrix(float m[4][4], float q[4]);
00070 
00071 /*
00072  * This function computes a quaternion based on an axis (defined by
00073  * the given vector) and an angle about which to rotate.  The angle is
00074  * expressed in radians.  The result is put into the third argument.
00075  */
00076 void
00077 axis_to_quat(float a[3], float phi, float q[4]);
00078 

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