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diff --git a/quaternion.c b/quaternion.c
index 686c04e..ca44747 100644
--- a/quaternion.c
+++ b/quaternion.c
@@ -78,6 +78,24 @@ normq(Quaternion q)
return sdivq(q, qlen(q));
}
+/*
+ * based on the implementation from:
+ *
+ * Jonathan Blow, “Understanding Slerp, Then Not Using it”,
+ * The Inner Product, April 2004.
+ */
+Quaternion
+slerp(Quaternion q, Quaternion r, double t)
+{
+ Quaternion v;
+ double θ, q·r;
+
+ q·r = fclamp(dotq(q, r), -1, 1); /* stay within the domain of acos(2) */
+ θ = acos(q·r)*t;
+ v = normq(subq(r, smulq(q, q·r))); /* v = r - (q·r)q / |v| */
+ return addq(smulq(q, cos(θ)), smulq(v, sin(θ))); /* q cos(θ) + v sin(θ) */
+}
+
Point3
qrotate(Point3 p, Point3 axis, double θ)
{