Fly a 747 with MATLAB: Adding Realism, Quaternions, Trajectory Tracing 1.0

In the video associated with the demo here:http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fil...47-using-matlabThere was a teaser posed in the video asking why the 747 in the animation did a 360 flip at certain points in the trajectory. The answer was: We were not using quaternions.This demo uses the quaternion functions from the Aerospace Toolbox to resolve this paradox.Also, to add realism to the scene, the terrain was modeled in Blender, a free 3D tool for authoring powerful 3D scenes:http://www.blender.org/The tutorial that was referenced for creating the mountains is available here:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_N...ut_Of_MolehillsUse the Export to VRML feature to bring into VRML format and add the aircraft from the Objects library in VRealm Builder editor.The sky was modeled as a half-hemisphere with texturing.The trajectory tracing was done by creating spheres dynamically using the PROTO declarations.

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Platforms:	Matlab
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