It seems like a topology implication which help us reduce error in the real world.
jlessioh
Couldn't this work well for airplanes autopilot? The single axis of rotation could just turn the plane left or right, keeping the altitude relatively constant. This might be oversimplifying airplanes though.
Sybil
Probably would be bad intuitively since being locked onto an axis is not an expected behavior when the pilot's trying to rotate in two directions
emmaloool
I'm curious why it was decided to call this a gimbal "lock" - nothing's actually locked in place in terms of the rotation around axes...
tarangs
Loved the simple math based explanation! In general, I was super happy with the fact that this was the first time a discussion on Gimbal lock was concluded without referencing Apollo 13(I always tend to get distracted by that) :D
It seems like a topology implication which help us reduce error in the real world.
Couldn't this work well for airplanes autopilot? The single axis of rotation could just turn the plane left or right, keeping the altitude relatively constant. This might be oversimplifying airplanes though.
Probably would be bad intuitively since being locked onto an axis is not an expected behavior when the pilot's trying to rotate in two directions
I'm curious why it was decided to call this a gimbal "lock" - nothing's actually locked in place in terms of the rotation around axes...
Loved the simple math based explanation! In general, I was super happy with the fact that this was the first time a discussion on Gimbal lock was concluded without referencing Apollo 13(I always tend to get distracted by that) :D