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From: hap@cis.ufl.edu (Mr. Graphite)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: articulated animation
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Date: 20 Feb 91 21:14:13 GMT
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What is the best way to model a higher degree of freedom joing ( eg. spherical)
in articulated animation ?

Denavit - Hartenberg notation ( breaking up the joint into a kinetmatic chain)
taken from robotics does a great job, but is there a simpler way that only
deals with one local coordinate frame ? 

Would rool/pitch/yaw or euler angles be better here ? I don't hink so, but what
do you think ?????

Hanns

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