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Just to complement the idea. A dual quaternion can be used to define a rigid body rotation AND translation of an angle θ about an axis u through the origin. I realy don't known which kind of quaternion is implemented in TF, maybe just the rotational.

Here you can found an interresting web site about quaternions. And here a very good paper with a tutorial and a real application.

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