The Grass Valley Group's late 1980s real-time digital video effects system, the Kaleidoscope, used quaternions for orientation of 2D planes in 3D space (Cartesi

The Grass Valley Group's late 1980s real-time digital video effects system, the Kaleidoscope, used quaternions for orientation of 2D planes in 3D space (Cartesian) to avoid gimbal lock although it also offered Euler angles for animation of multiple rotations.