Posture consists of forward, upward and rightward directions.
Each directions has 2 degrees of freedom, but the set of them has only 3 degrees.

Recall that the posture can be represented as a unit quaternion.
The unit quaternion has a constraint on its length, so thus it has 3 degrees of freedom.

posted by takiuchi takiuchi on Wed 10 Jun 2009 at 02:30 with 0 comments