Comment by breatheoften
7 years ago
Does this assume the earth is a sphere? Can you keep the elegance of this coordinate encoding with convenient transformation operations and define somewhere a mapping from the quaternarion encoding of position into a non-homogenous oblate spheroid encoding like WGS84 ...?
> Does this assume the earth is a sphere?
Of course, speaking about Earth is just for the mental image.
> Can you keep the elegance of this coordinate encoding with convenient transformation operations and define somewhere a mapping from the quaternarion encoding of position into a non-homogenous oblate spheroid encoding like WGS84 ...?
I don't understand the question.