Re: quaternions

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi Pierre,

> I believe that it is a worthwhile addition. LAMMPS and ESPResSo use 
> quaternions
> as well and could store them in H5MD.

I agree.

> I intend to file a H5MD enhancement proposal but would like feedback. The
> storage scheme would be simple: instead of the cartesian coordinates, the last
> index of the dataset would run over the quaternion components w, x, y, z. This
> order is used internally by LAMMPS, by the Python library rowan. My own code
> uses x, y, z, w so I'll change it :-(
>
> The name of the data would be "quaternion".

Looks good to me!

Regards,
  Konrad.
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