Orientation

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Orientation

Defines an orientation. An orientation is a rotation that takes a vector expressed in the "body" axes of the object and transforms it to the Earth fixed axes.

Extends: InterpolatableProperty

Extends: DeletableProperty

Interpolatable: yes

Examples:

{
    "orientation": {
        "unitQuaternion": [ 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ]
    }
}

{
    "orientation": {
        "interpolationAlgorithm": "LINEAR",
        "interpolationDegree": 1,
        "epoch": "2012-03-15T10:00:00Z",
        "unitQuaternion": [
            0, 0.45652188368372576, -0.049580035995243577, -0.8819344359461565, 0.10640131785324795,
            300, 0.309688526062018, -0.0592870464529779, -0.945283886004075, 0.0837641797515638,
            600, 0.15524757622990795, -0.06613430791377527, -0.9841132393764626, 0.05518673278488507
        ]
    }
}

Properties

unitQuaternion - UnitQuaternionValue

The orientation specified as a 4-dimensional unit magnitude quaternion, specified as [X, Y, Z, W].

reference - ReferenceValue

The orientation specified as a reference to another property.

velocityReference - VelocityReferenceValue

The orientation specified as the normalized velocity vector of a position property. The reference must be to a position property.