Hi all!
I was reading this article on Euler angles and gimbal lock:
http://sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/eulers_are_evil.html
Now, what i do not understand is this:
In any coordinate space(Cartesian) aren’t the three basis vectors need to be perpendicular to each other? So, i don’t understand when the article says something like two axes are aligned.
So, the article suggests that what was a roll, is now a heading for the plane.
My understanding is that the pilot still has all degrees of freedom of rotation, but the axes are just differently named. But, i fail to understand where there is a “loss of degree of rotation” here, since at any orientation, the object is still free to move in all directions, only that the meaning of rotations change.
Can anyone please explain this?
Thanks!