Talk:Attitude (geometry)

Merge proposal

I have just proposed to merge this article with Yaw, pitch, and roll, because they deal with the same subject. I am not sure anyway which one should be merged into the other.--Juansempere (talk) 11:31, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yaw, pitch and roll is a particular representation of rotations, whereas attitude is the general property. Orientation (mathematics) is essentially the same as attitude, i.e. it's just a different name for it. That article seems to largely consist of a summary of Rotation representation (mathematics), so if merged that could be replaced with some of the content here.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 17:41, 6 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think that a merger with Yaw, pitch and roll would be a bad idea, basically because it's important to have articles to address the right audience in each case. Yaw, pitch, and roll is a relatively common way of describing orientation / attitude, and there's definitely enough to say about it to have an article which is aimed at people interested in aircraft, etc. This information would get lost in a general article on orientation, which is likely to be much more mathematically heavy going, and discuss several other methods of describing orientation (DCMs, quaternions, ...) Djr32 (talk) 23:02, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One addition: I think that merging Attitude (geometry) and Orientation (geometry) would be a good thing. Probably under the latter name. Djr32 (talk) 23:08, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]