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Re: gsl_quaternion proposition
- From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy dot duke dot edu>
- To: picca at synchrotron-soleil dot fr
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:47:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: gsl_quaternion proposition
- References: <20060510162815.15470ee8.picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr>
On Wed, 10 May 2006, picca@synchrotron-soleil.fr wrote:
Hello
I attached here a proposition for a gsl_quaternion base on the gsl_complex.
The tar file containe a quaternion directory.
Just extract it and apply the patch to the gsl CVS version:
The patch just add the quaternion directory to the makefile.am and modify configure.ac
the generation the Makefile from the quaternion directory.
after this regenerate the ./configure and ./configure;make
I ispired myself a lot from the gsl_complex as quaternion are a generalization of the complex.
I hope it will not be to painfull to test.
for now I have just implemented
the basic add sub mul and somme other basic method.
please have a look at the gsl_quaternin_math.h
For each function of math.c I wrote a test in test.c
Interesting idea. Are you thinking of adding support for generalized
geometric (division) algebras (clifford algebras) of arbitrary grade or
just quaternions?
I'll try to take a look soon, although I'm going to be too busy for a
few days yet.
Thanks!
rgb
(P.S. -- Happy decade-day to GSL and many thanks to the whole GSL
team:-)
Have a good day.
Frederic
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