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Return uniformly distributed random rotations in quaternion form
ResourceFunction["RandomRotationQuaternion"][] returns a unit quaternion from uniformly distributed random rotations. | |
ResourceFunction["RandomRotationQuaternion"][m] returns m unit quaternions from uniformly distributed random rotations. |
Generate a random orientation:
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Generate 5 random orientations:
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The norm of a quaternion corresponding to random orientations is equal to 1:
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Generate 2500 random points on a sphere by rotating the vector {0,0,1} with random orientations:
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