“Average” of multiple quaternions?

Question

I\'m trying to make the switch from matrices to quaternions for skeletal animation in my OpenGL program, but I\'ve encountered a problem:

Given a number of unit quat

Answer 1

I tried Slerping the quaternions as suggested here but that didn't work for what I'm trying to do (model was distorted), so I simply ended up transforming the vectors by each quaternion and then doing an average (until I can find a better solution).