Orientation.h

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// File:     Orientation.h
// Class:    None 
// Parent:   None
// Purpose:  Includes UnitVec3, Quaternion, Rotation, Transform, and related classes
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#ifndef SimTK_SIMMATRIX_ORIENTATION_H_
#define SimTK_SIMMATRIX_ORIENTATION_H_

/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
 *                       Simbody(tm): SimTKcommon                             *
 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
 * This is part of the SimTK biosimulation toolkit originating from           *
 * Simbios, the NIH National Center for Physics-Based Simulation of           *
 * Biological Structures at Stanford, funded under the NIH Roadmap for        *
 * Medical Research, grant U54 GM072970. See https://simtk.org/home/simbody.  *
 *                                                                            *
 * Portions copyright (c) 2005-12 Stanford University and the Authors.        *
 * Authors: Michael Sherman                                                   *
 * Contributors:                                                              *
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 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may    *
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 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

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#include "SimTKcommon/internal/common.h"
#include "SimTKcommon/SmallMatrix.h"
#include "SimTKcommon/internal/UnitVec.h"
#include "SimTKcommon/internal/Quaternion.h"
#include "SimTKcommon/internal/Rotation.h"
#include "SimTKcommon/internal/Transform.h"
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#include <iosfwd>  // Forward declaration of iostream
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// Some handy conversion constants. 
// Use templatized inline conversion routines instead whenever possible.
// These are defined so that you can multiply by them. For example, if you have
// an angle qRad in radians and want to convert to degrees, write qDeg = qRad*SimTK_RTD.
// Note that the expressions here will always be evaluated at compile time, yielding
// long double results which you can cast to smaller sizes if you want.
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#define SimTK_RTD (180/SimTK_PI)
#define SimTK_DTR (SimTK_PI/180)

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namespace SimTK {

inline static Real  convertRadiansToDegrees(const Real rad) { return rad*Real(SimTK_RTD); }
inline static Real  convertDegreesToRadians(const Real deg) { return deg*Real(SimTK_DTR); }


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}  // End of namespace SimTK

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#endif // SimTK_SIMMATRIX_ORIENTATION_H_
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