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Quaternion Structure

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Structure that represents a rotation in three dimensions.

Namespace:   System.Windows.Media.Media3D
Assembly:  PresentationCore (in PresentationCore.dll)

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[SerializableAttribute]
[TypeConverterAttribute((QuaternionConverter^::typeid))]
public value struct Quaternion : IFormattable

NameDescription
System_CAPS_pubmethodQuaternion(Double, Double, Double, Double)

Initializes a new instance of the Quaternion structure.

System_CAPS_pubmethodQuaternion(Vector3D, Double)

Initializes a new instance of the Quaternion structure.

NameDescription
System_CAPS_pubpropertyAngle

Gets the quaternion's angle, in degrees.

System_CAPS_pubpropertyAxis

Gets the quaternion's axis.

System_CAPS_pubpropertySystem_CAPS_staticIdentity

Gets the Identity quaternion

System_CAPS_pubpropertyIsIdentity

Gets a value that indicates whether the specified quaternion is an Identity quaternion.

System_CAPS_pubpropertyIsNormalized

Gets a value that indicates whether the quaternion is normalized.

System_CAPS_pubpropertyW

Gets the W component of the quaternion.

System_CAPS_pubpropertyX

Gets the X component of the quaternion.

System_CAPS_pubpropertyY

Gets the Y component of the quaternion.

System_CAPS_pubpropertyZ

Gets the Z component of the quaternion.

NameDescription
System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticAdd(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Adds the specified quaternions.

System_CAPS_pubmethodConjugate()

Replaces a quaternion with its conjugate.

System_CAPS_pubmethodEquals(Object^)

Compares two Quaternion instances for equality. (Overrides ValueType::Equals(Object^).)

System_CAPS_pubmethodEquals(Quaternion)

Compares two Quaternion instances for equality.

System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticEquals(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Compares two Quaternion instances for equality.

System_CAPS_pubmethodGetHashCode()

Returns the hash code for the Quaternion. (Overrides ValueType::GetHashCode().)

System_CAPS_pubmethodGetType()

Gets the Type of the current instance.(Inherited from Object.)

System_CAPS_pubmethodInvert()

Replaces the specified quaternion with its inverse

System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticMultiply(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Multiplies the specified Quaternion values.

System_CAPS_pubmethodNormalize()

Returns a normalized quaternion.

System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticParse(String^)

Converts a string representation of a Quaternion into the equivalent Quaternion structure.

System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticSlerp(Quaternion, Quaternion, Double)

Interpolates between two orientations using spherical linear interpolation.

System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticSlerp(Quaternion, Quaternion, Double, Boolean)

Interpolates between orientations, represented as Quaternion structures, using spherical linear interpolation.

System_CAPS_pubmethodSystem_CAPS_staticSubtract(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Subtracts a Quaternion from another.

System_CAPS_pubmethodToString()

Creates a string representation of the object. (Overrides ValueType::ToString().)

System_CAPS_pubmethodToString(IFormatProvider^)

Creates a string representation of the object.

NameDescription
System_CAPS_puboperatorSystem_CAPS_staticAddition(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Adds the specified Quaternion values.

System_CAPS_puboperatorSystem_CAPS_staticEquality(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Compares two Quaternion instances for exact equality.

System_CAPS_puboperatorSystem_CAPS_staticInequality(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Compares two Quaternion instances for exact inequality.

System_CAPS_puboperatorSystem_CAPS_staticMultiply(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Multiplies the specified quaternion by another.

System_CAPS_puboperatorSystem_CAPS_staticSubtraction(Quaternion, Quaternion)

Subtracts a specified quaternion from another.

NameDescription
System_CAPS_pubinterfaceSystem_CAPS_privmethodIFormattable::ToString(String^, IFormatProvider^)

This member supports the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. For a description of this member, see ToString.

Quaternions allow you to interpolate between rotation transformations applied to an object, thereby making it easier to compute smooth animations of rotations. A quaternion represents an axis of rotation and a rotation around that axis. It's possible to individually define the axis and angle of rotation of the starting and ending positions of a rotated object ,but the intermediate positions of that object during an animation are computationally uncertain. By determining a quaternion that represents the original orientation of a 3-D object and one that represents its destination orientation, you can smoothly interpolate between those orientations.

In XAML, the delimiter between the values of a Quaternion can be either a comma or a space.

Some cultures might use the comma character as the decimal delimiter instead of the period character. XAML processing for invariant culture defaults to en-US in most XAML processor implementations, and expects the period to be the decimal delimiter. You should avoid using the comma character as the decimal delimiter if specifying a Quaternion in XAML, because that will clash with the string type conversion of a Quaternion attribute value into its components.

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<object property="x,y,z,w"/>
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<object property="x y z w"/>

x

The X component of this Quaternion structure.

y

The Y component of this Quaternion structure.

z

The Z component of this Quaternion structure.

w

The W component of this Quaternion structure.

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<!-- Trigger the rotation animation when the 3D object loads. -->
<Viewport3D.Triggers>
  <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="Viewport3D.Loaded">
    <BeginStoryboard>
      <Storyboard>

        <!-- This animation animates the Rotation property of the RotateTransform3D
             causing the 3D shape to rotate. -->
        <QuaternionAnimation
         Storyboard.TargetName="myQuaternionRotation3D"
         Storyboard.TargetProperty="Quaternion" From="0,0,1,0" To="0.3, 0.3, 1, 0" 
         Duration="0:0:2" />

      </Storyboard>
    </BeginStoryboard>
  </EventTrigger>
</Viewport3D.Triggers>
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.NET Framework
Available since 3.0

Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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