Talk:Gimbal lock
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Regarding message sent to me vis-a-vis "Gimbal Lock".
I was the one who altered the definition, as it was I who was the one who posted it in the first place. I needed to clarify my definition, as "gimbal lock" can be rather hard to visualise.
James Cloninger
You can do this without removing the formatting and links that I've placed there, simply leave the formatting intact without removing everything before you make a new edit. Thanks Dysprosia 09:58, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Re: Gimbal Lock -- follow-up
You can do this without removing the formatting and links that I've placed there, simply leave the formatting intact without removing everything before you make a new edit.
Okay, my bad. :)
James.
[edit] Hard to follow
It is still hard to follow as it stands. More math and other content is needed. Some possibilities include the outside observer and the observer moving along with the rotations. Hackwrench 17:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image of rotating gimbal
I rendered an image of rotating gimbal: Image:Rotating gimbal-xyz.gif. Perhaps you can use it for the article or so? :-) --89.49.208.102 10:18, 9 November 2006 (UTC) (de:RokerHRO ≡ commons:RokerHRO)
- For the purposes of illustrating gimbal lock, there is already a better basis: Image:Gyroscope operation.gif --gwaihir 10:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Erroneous Definition
From the article: It may also be described as the situation when all three gyros hit the limits of their ability to move within the sensing mechanism - they hit hard stops and stop moving around.
There's two things wrong with this sentence. First, the previous definition cannot "also be described" in this manner -- this sentence describes a completely different phenomenon. Secondly, this phenomenon -- gyros hitting their stops is not what people mean when they refer to gimbal lock.
So I'm deleting it. Tom Duff 03:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
