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thLib
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*thLib* primarily contains functions for working with 3D kinematics. (i.e.
quaternions and rotation matrices). In addition, it has a number of routines
for fitting circles, lines, sine-waves, and exponential decays. For signal
processing, a Savitzky-Golay filter is included, as well as a demonstration of
the calculation of a power spectrum. UI utilities, and a few useful vector
functions (e.g. an implementation of the Savitzky-Golay algorithm) round off
*thLib*.

Compatible with Python 2 and 3.

Dependencies
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PyQt4, pandas, statsmodels

Author:  Thomas Haslwanter
Date:    04-Dec-2013
Ver:     0.5.0
Licence: BSD 2-Clause License (http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)
        Copyright (c) 2013, Thomas Haslwanter
        All rights reserved.

Installation
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You can install thlib with

    pip install thLib

and upgrade to a new version with

    pip install thLib -U

Vectors
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Routines for working with vectors
These routines can be used with vectors, as well as with matrices containing a vector in each row.

- vector.normalize ... Vector normalization
- vector.project ... Projection of one vector onto another one
- vector.GramSchmidt ... Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization of three points
- vector.qrotate ... Quaternion indicating the shortest rotation from one vector into another.
- vector.rotate_vector ... Rotation of a vector


Quaternions
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Note that all these functions work with single quaternions and quaternion vectors,
as well as with arrays containing these.

Functions for working with quaternions
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- quat.quatconj ... Conjugate quaternion 
- quat.quatinv ... Quaternion inversion
- quat.quatmult ... Quaternion multiplication

Conversion routines
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- quat.deg2quat ... Convert number or axis angles to quaternion vectors
- quat.quat2deg ... Convert quaternion to corresponding axis angle
- quat.quat2rotmat ... Convert quaternion to corresponding rotation matrix
- quat.quat2vect ... Extract the vector part from a quaternion
- quat.rotmat2quat ... Convert a rotation matrix to the corresponding quaternion
- quat.vect2quat ... Externd a quaternion vector to a unit quaternion.


Rotation Matrices
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Definition of rotation matrices
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- rotmat.R1 ... 3D rotation matrix for rotation about the 1-axis
- rotmat.R2 ... 3D rotation matrix for rotation about the 2-axis
- rotmat.R3 ... 3D rotation matrix for rotation about the 3-axis

Conversion Routines
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- rotmat.rotmat2Fick ... Calculation of Fick angles
- rotmat.rotmat2Helmholtz ... Calculation of Helmholtz angles

Symbolic matrices
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- rotmat.R1_s() ... symbolix matrix for rotation about the 1-axis
- rotmat.R2_s() ... symbolix matrix for rotation about the 2-axis
- rotmat.R3_s() ... symbolix matrix for rotation about the 3-axis

For example, you can e.g. generate a Fick-matrix, with

>>> R_Fick = R3_s() * R2_s() * R1_s()
    
Kinematics
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- kinematics.analyze3Dmarkers ... Kinematic analysis of video-basedrecordings of 3D markers
- kinematics.movement_from_markers ... Calculation of joint-movements from 3D marker positions
- kinematics.vel2quat ... Calculate orientation from a starting orientation and angular velocity.
- kinematics.reconstruct_movement ... From the measured data from an IMU, reconstruct the movement.
- kinematics.vel2quat ... Calculate orientation from a starting orientation and angular velocity.

Fits
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Functions
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- fits.demo_ransac ... RANSAC fit of best circle in image
- fits.fit_circle ... basic circle fit
- fits.fit_exp ... exponential fit
- fits.fit_line ... linear regression fit, complete with confidence intervals for mean and values, and with plotting
- fits.fit_sin ... sine fit
- fits.regress ... multilinear regression fit, similar to MATLAB
    
Signal Processing Utilities
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- signals.pSpect ... simple power spectrum from FFT
- signals.savgol ... Savitzky-Golay filter

GUI Utilities
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- ui.getfile ... GUI for selecting an existing file
- ui.getdir ... GUI for selecting a directory
- ui.savefile ... GUI for saving a file


