14:25:39Bikeis compute-effective-method allowed to return funcalls and stuff instead of call-method and stuff?
14:28:04beachAt the risk of being unclear once more, in the method that specializes only on classes specified in the MOP, you can do what you want, since there is no conforming way for client code to observe what is done.
14:28:57stassatsbut only on direct instances of these classes?
19:34:32drmeisterI'm working on a project to build atomic structures of DNA origami for biosensors.
19:35:37drmeisterI am doing non-linear optimization on chunks of DNA as rigid bodies. The rigid bodies are described by a collection of points in the rigid body frame and the system is described by a bunch of rigid bodies at different rotations and centers of geometry.
19:36:14drmeisterI wanted to describe the rotations/positions of each rigid body with a quaternion and position (list a b c d x y z) where a b c d are the quaternion.
19:36:25drmeisterI want to know how often I need to normalize the quaternion.
19:38:10Shinmeraif you want position and rotation in a quaternion there's dual-quaternions for that.
19:38:42drmeisterI saw those - do I need to use those?