How to interpolate rotations?

Question

I have two vectors describing rotations; a start rotation A and a target rotation B. How would I best go about interpolating A by a factor F to approach B?

Using a simpl

Answer 1

Since I don't seem to understand your question, here is a little SLERP implementation in python using numpy. I plotted the results using matplotlib (v.99 for Axes3D). I don't know if you can use python, but does look like your SLERP implementation? It seems to me to give fine results ...

from numpy import *
from numpy.linalg import norm

def slerp(p0, p1, t):
        omega = arccos(dot(p0/norm(p0), p1/norm(p1)))
        so = sin(omega)
        return sin((1.0-t)*omega) / so * p0 + sin(t*omega)/so * p1


# test code
if __name__ == '__main__':
    pA = array([-2.0, 0.0, 2.0])
    pB = array([0.0, 2.0, -2.0])

    ps = array([slerp(pA, pB, t) for t in arange(0.0, 1.0, 0.01)])

    from pylab import *
    from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
    f = figure()
    ax = Axes3D(f)
    ax.plot3D(ps[:,0], ps[:,1], ps[:,2], '.')
    show()