
Real world uses of Quaternions? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Quaternions are a way of specifying a rotation through a axis and the cosine of half the angle. They main advantage is I can pick any two quaternions and smoothly interpolate between them. Rotors …
linear algebra - How can one intuitively think about quaternions ...
Oct 19, 2010 · After a couple awesome moments of understanding, I understood it for imaginary numbers, but I'm still having trouble extending the thoughts to quaternions. How can someone …
Understanding quaternions - Mathematics Stack Exchange
May 27, 2020 · How many questions about understanding quaternions have you read on the site? This is something that people are constantly asking about, so there is plenty of material. If you're mainly …
Quaternions: why does ijk = -1 and ij=k and -ji=k
I think the geometric algebra interpretation of complex numbers and quaternions is the best, since it reveals more directly the fact that the "imaginary numbers" can be seen as encodings of …
Super confused by SQUAD algorithm for quaternion interpolation
Feb 14, 2018 · The demo generates 10 random unit quaternions and then interpolates between them indefinitely. It shows 12 WebGL canvas instances, 2 per algorithm. The top canvas displays the …
quaternions - Rotating a 4 dimensional point? - Mathematics Stack …
I'm trying to rotate a 4 dimensional point (w,x,y,z). So far I've been rotating around planes (wx,xy,yz,zw,wy, and xy), but the order in which I do these rotations changes the results and can …
ring theory - Why are the only associative division algebras over the ...
Why are the only (associative) division algebras over the real numbers the real numbers, the complex numbers, and the quaternions? Here a division algebra is an associative algebra where every …
Quaternion distance - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Dec 10, 2011 · I am using quaternions to represent orientation as a rotational offset from a global coordinate frame. Is it correct in thinking that quaternion distance gives a metric that defines the …
Combining rotation quaternions - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Feb 3, 2017 · If I combine 2 rotation quaternions by multiplying them, lets say one represents some rotation around x axis and other represents some rotation around some arbitrary axis. The order of …
difference between 2 quaternions - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Mar 1, 2016 · Your terminology and symbolism are confusing. "Hamilton product" refers to the product of quaternions, and while vectors can be considered quaternions with 0 scalar part, their product is a …