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Integrated quaternion is never renormalized · case 04

Orientation magnitude grows each step and scales transformed geometry.

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Case contract

solve(q, omega, dt, steps): orientation quaternion [w,x,y,z], world-frame angular velocity omega. Each step q += 0.5*dt*(0,omega) (x) q (Hamilton product, omega on the left), then renormalize to unit length. Return q with w>=0 (negate all components otherwise), rounded to 6.

Why this case matters

Game and robotics physics loops depend on integrator update order, step control and stabilization terms; a wrong decision point turns a stable simulation into drifting or exploding motion.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
case 0	`[0.0803, -0.384953, -0.839484, 0.385554]`	`[0.07998, -0.383418, -0.836137, 0.384017]`	Failed

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