Get yaw, pitch and roll from normalized vector

Math and Physics Programming

Started by anchelito November 23, 2007 11:18 AM

2 comments, last by anchelito 16 years, 4 months ago

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November 23, 2007 11:18 AM

i do have a vector and i want to have the yaw, pitch and roll angles of that vector. i already found out, that my yaw is just asin(vec.x), but i don't know how to calculate the other values. thanks a lot for the help! greetings, anchelito

ToohrVyk

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November 23, 2007 11:25 AM

A single vector has no roll (or rather, it can have any roll, since it won't change what it is).

Pitch is asin(y), if y is up. Once you have pitch, you have yaw as acos(x/r) where r = cos(pitch).

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anchelito

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November 23, 2007 11:32 AM

thanks for the quick response.
actually i do have a line in space defined by two vectors. i imaginary translate both, so that the first vector is at the origin and i thought i just need the normalized translated second vector to calculate yaw, pitch and roll.

does a line have yaw, pitch and roll???

thanks!

anchelito

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November 24, 2007 03:47 AM

okay ... after i went out yesterday, i suddenly realized that it is the same with a line, there is also no roll, or at least the roll doesn't have a visual effect!

thanks for the help!