Gimble Lock - Explained

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I finally get it, thank you so much!

Thanks great explanation

Great explanation even after so many years this video is helpful.

same as robot joints after each other, they end up doing each others jobs! still i reckon you should have many many of them in a row anyway, because u still need the repeats. need 200 dimensions on your terminator, makes a difference!

which program are you using to display this example ?

If you want to be taken seriously, by me at least, ensure that your spelling is beyond reproach.

I already was understand that but anyway I was watch to the end.what is your next video?

what program are you using to animate this?

It's spelled gimbal lock. You can update the title without losing the likes and shares..

Euler = "OILer"

so your order of rotation multiplication is rot_z * rot_y * rot_x * pos. And so rotation z is always based on the world coordinate while x is local coordinate. So when y changes the direction of x axis of the local coordinate system in the world to align with the z coordinate in the world, adding rotation to z will not rotate it.

Bonjour . Le gyroscope démontre de façon indéfectible , que nous sommes sur une planète plate .

Thats why I use quaternions over euler to avoid gimbal lock..

Dude, you spelled gimbal wrong, you are pronouncing Euler wrong and you are using the wrong plural for axis.

I head the word in behind the scenes videos from a TV show, and was absolutely sure the spelling was gimble... like principle (principal adjective) etc.

But where was the "lock"?

"Gimbal", not "Gimble".

Thank you for this. Really helped me understand it better.

Good video, but Euler is pronounced "Oiler".

Apollo 13, I was in 9th grade and enthralled with these astronauts, their courage, brains and amazing execution under pressure.  I was the only girl in my all girl high-school who cared, who had the brains to recognize the incredible achievement... I actually knew what a Gimbal lock was!! (My did my 8th grade science project on Apollo 12).   Fast forward, my HS geometry teacher said I might not graduate I was so terrible in GEO.... 

It's Gimbal lock, not Gimble lock.

Which axis is yaw,pitch,roll? Is the blue yaw, green roll, red pitch?

Thanks for the explanation.
p.s. The plural of axis is axes, pr. ax-eez

Thanks! One correction: it's spelled gimbal

Mega brilliant explanation - a million thanks buddy :)

Finally, a clear explanation of the Gimbal! crazy how the top comments are something in the lines of "dude you spelled it wrong", when you explained it right. Cheers!

Ah, so this is why Quaternions have to be extradimensional.

Depends on the 3D application. There are certainly some programs where this applies, otherwise I wouldn't have searched for this video! However, some software allows you to control and specify the hierarchy of the XYZ axes.

Kirbal Space Program brought me here

Apollo 13 brought me here

But isn't it a gimple thing to do for the creator to edit the name! (unlike me to edit this comment :P)

Use global rotations instead of local ones. Or use quaternions instead of eulers.

That is sooo not true. I love science

Fuck Gimbal Lock

Thank you so much for this incredibly clear and thorough explanation! Actually seeing what's going on helps so much. Thank you!

great explanation! thank you so much!

Thanks, that was very helpful. I'm reading the second edition of 3D Math Primer for Graphics and for the life of me couldn't figure out what they were talking about. Seeing it makes it much easier to understand.

yea no kidding they are ungrateful turdtards.

thank greatly!!

This is a fantastically clear and cosice explanation of gimbal lock. Even having had to deal with it in games hadn't made it as clear as this video did. Thankyou!

And its pronounced as "Oiler" :D

I never understood gimble lock until I have watched this awesome video, thank you so much and very well done.

Very nicely done!

@psistarpsi80 The axes we are referring to here are axes of the object, not the world. The circles are used to exaggerate the motions of each individual axis. For a computer to calculate an object's position, it solves each axis individually, starting with x, then y, then z. these solutions move around like a gimbal, rather than a rigid 3 axis rig.

@psistarpsi80 cirle is better understandable then an axis :)

As a mathematician I have no idea what you mean by axis :). For me an axis of rotation is fixed! And well, it's an axis, not a circle!!