SLERP

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Etymology

Acronym

Proper noun

SLERP

1. (New Jersey) Acronym of State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy commission., a New Jersey commission charged with review and analysis of New Jersey's fiscal processes.
   • 1986, New Jersey. Economic Policy Council, Report [of The] Economic Policy Council and Office of Economic Policy, page 5:

     A SLERP Commission proposal would improve incentives by applying a special rate on new construction.

   • 1988, The Budget Message and Taxpayers' Guide:

     As I write, I know these problems are being examined by the State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission (SLERP).

   • 1998, Barbara G. Salmore, Stephen A. Salmore, New Jersey Politics and Government:

     Plagued by delays in selecting an executive director and the governor's appointees, SLERP did not begin work until September 1985.

   • 1990, Silvio R. Laccetti, New Jersey Profiles in Public Policy, page 237:

     SLERP Commission expenditure reforms affect each type of local government and provide a total of $1.2 billion in total property tax relief.

Noun

SLERP (plural SLERPs)

1. (mathematics, computing) Acronym of spherical linear interpolation.
   • 2001, Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality, page 79:

     This filter is very straightforward to implement using the technique of spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) [8].

   • 2008, Mario Gutierrez, F. Vexo, Daniel Thalmann, Stepping into Virtual Reality, page 24:

     We have already mentioned that quaternions give very good visual results when interpolated using spherical linear interpolation, commonly known as SLERP.

   • 2010, Ron Goldman, Rethinking Quaternions, page xiii:

     Third, in key frame animation, we can readily interpolate smoothly between two rotations represented by unit quaternions by using spherical linear interpolation (SLERP) [Shoemake, 1985] (see also Section 9.3).

Verb

SLERP (third-person singular simple present SLERPs, present participle SLERPing, simple past and past participle SLERPed)

1. (mathematics, computing) To interpolate by using SLERP.
   • 2003, Evan Pipho, Focus on 3D Models - Volume 1, page 150:

     The rotation quaternion should be SLERPed in order to give the rotation interpolation a smooth curve.

   • 2011, Michael Ivanov, Away3D 3.6 Cookbook:

     Inside this handler, we perform the actual transformation update of our _tracker calculating the current SLERPed Quaternion, and then converting it to the Matrix3D and finally to transform property of the object: private :Jnction

   • 2018 October, CT Richards, LB Porro, “A novel kinematics analysis method using quaternion interpolation–a case study in frog jumping”, in Journal of theoretical biology, volume 454:

     Using continuously varying time, τ, the quaternionized limb is “SLERPed” towards the target until the target body pose is reached.

Anagrams

• LPers, Sperl, lerps