from
Hacker News
Top
New
3D Shape Matching with Quaternions
by
cgadski
on 1/24/24, 9:19 PM with 1 comments
by
dekhn
on 1/24/24, 11:58 PM
I believe this roughly the same algorithm used in matching protein structures using minimum RMSD, which used various methods over the years.
https://boscoh.com/protein/rmsd-root-mean-square-deviation.h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabsch_algorithm
and see also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_Procrustes_problem